Annie Dare is a writer whose essays and journalism have been published in many top global publications, from The Sun to Al Jazeera English, The South China Morning Post to The Hindustan Times.

Annie’s work concentrates on social and environmental justice and climate change in the UK and South Asia, where she has frequently been based, on assignment, as author of a series of travel books, and most recently as head of communications for the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, the research centre for the vast highland crescent of the Hindu Kush Himalaya.

Annie studied English Literature and colonial history, diasporic writing, and the cultural legacies of Empire at Sussex University; and the History of International Relations, including the International Relations of the Middle East, Political Islam, and the End of the Cold War, at the London School of Economics.  

She started her writing career in journalism: first working on a London local paper, then reporting on the media and marketing industry, before several years writing about commercial creativity—including stills photography, music videos, short films and advertising. 

She worked for several years as a sub-editor on The Financial Times Weekend, The Sunday Times, and Condé Nast Traveller, and has worked as a copywriter for the London advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy, City Bridge Foundation and Disasters Emergency Committee. 

A long-time climate, nature, and human rights activist, she has founded, advised, fundraised or acted as a spokesperson for numerous campaigns, social enterprises, and non-profits. This includes longstanding associations with participatory development organisation PhotoVoice, digital inclusion campaign RaceOnline2012, welfare-state innovation lab Participle, digital skills collective Catalyst, prison reform charity Switchback, nature access campaign The Stars are For Everyone and Indigenous storytelling and advocacy organisations Wisdom Keepers, InsightShare, and SaveOurSnow. 

After three years living in Lalitpur, Nepal, she now lives with her two children in London. She reads ceaselessly and is a certified Ashtanga Yoga teacher.