Derek Ingram is a British

United Kingdom

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 journalist and author, and is widely-regarded as the best writer on issues related to the Commonwealth of Nations

Commonwealth of Nations

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. He was the co-founder of the Commonwealth Journalists Association (CJA) in 1978, and served as President of the CJA from 1980 until 1990, when he was elected President Emeritus.

He worked for the Daily Mail

Daily Mail

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for seventeen years, including working his way up to Deputy Editor. A disagreement with the chairman, Viscount Rothermere

Esmond Harmsworth, 2nd Viscount Rothermere

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, caused him to resign from the paper. In 1967, he founded the Gemini News Service, which he edited until 1993, and which reported stories from developing countries

Developing country

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, particularly in the Commonwealth.

Ingram is a member of the Round Table Moot, having first attended a meeting of the Moot in 1971. Until 2007, he wrote the 'Commonwealth Update' in The Round Table Journal

The Round Table Journal

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. He has written extensively in the journal, including its coverage of Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting

Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting

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s, having attended every one since 1971. He is a Vice-President of the Royal Commonwealth Society

Royal Commonwealth Society

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Works

• Partners in Adventure: a New Look at the Commonwealth Today (1960)
• The Commonwealth Challenge (1962)
• Commonwealth for a Colour-Blind World (1965)
• The Commonwealth at Work (1969)
• The Imperfect Commonwealth (1977)