Salim Lone is a Kenyan journalist, political avisor, and former Director of the News and Media Division, Department of Public Information, of the United Nations. In 2007, Lone became communications director of the Kenyan opposition Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) led by 2008 coallition Prime Minister Raila Odinga. He is a columnist for the Daily Nation in his native Kenya, and also writes regularly for The Guardian in the UK.