Question: Which government body did this Canadian journalist and author of his own account of living with the pirates, with its excerpt published in "The Guardian," advise?

Jay Bahadur (born 1984) is a Canadian journalist and author.  He became known for his reporting on piracy in Somalia, writing for "The New York Times", "The Financial Post", "The Globe and Mail", and "The Times of London".  Bahadur has also worked as a freelance correspondent for CBS News and he has advised the U.S. State Department on piracy.  His first book, "The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World" (2011), is his account of living with the pirates for several months in Puntland, a semi-autonomous region in the northeast of Somalia.  Bahadur currently lives in Nairobi. <SEP> The Pirates of Somalia (titled Deadly Waters in the UK and Australia) is a non-fiction book by Canadian journalist Jay Bahadur about his experiences and observations living among pirates in the autonomous region of Puntland during an upsurge in Somali piracy.  An advance excerpt appeared in a May 2011 edition of "The Guardian".  The author was living with his parents writing marketing reports about pet food and napkins when he decided to visit Somalia on his own.  Bahadur spent months in the country living with pirates. <SEP> Patrick White (born 1981, in Sechelt, British Columbia, Canada) is a prize-winning Canadian journalist and author.  White worked in his parents' publishing firm, Harbour Publishing during his high school years in Pender Harbour and attended the University of Victoria, graduating in 2003 with a BA in history followed by a masters in journalism at Columbia University in 2006.  He has worked for "Newsweek", "The New York Post", "Toro", "The Walrus" and currently serves as National Correspondent for "The Globe and Mail" in Toronto, Ontario.  In 2004 he published the book "Mountie in Mukluks", an irreverent look at the work of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the Canadian Arctic during the 1930s., In 2007 he received a National Magazine Awards Gold Medal for his feature ""Red Rush"," published in "The Walrus".  In 2009 White served as an embedded journalist with the Canadian Armed Forces in Kandahar, Afghanistan.  In April 2012 he won the 2011 National Newspaper Award for best Long Feature for an anniversary piece on the founding of Nunavut., followed in 2015 by another NNA award for his expose of Canada's overuse of solitary confinement, "Who Killed Eddie Snowshoe?"  His brother Silas White is the publisher of Nightwood Editions and councillor for the town of Gibsons, British Columbia. <SEP> Bill Barich (born 1943 in Winona, Minnesota) is an American writer.  He grew up on Long Island and graduated from Colgate University in 1965.  Subsequently, he served in the U.S. Peace Corps in eastern Nigeria (Biafra), then settled in northern California where many of his books are set.  He published "Laughing in the Hills", his first book, a classic account of racetrack life, in 1980.  William Shawn, editor of "The New Yorker", ran a two-part excerpt from the book and appointed Barich a staff writer.  His contributions over the next fifteen years fall into three categories: travel and the sporting life; reportage; and short fiction.  "Traveling Light", his account of a sojourn abroad in Italy and England, appeared in 1984, after which he won a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction.  His other books include "Hard to Be Good" (stories); "Big Dreams: Into the Heart of California" (travel); "Carson Valley" (novel); "Crazy for Rivers" (angling/autobiography); and "A Fine Place to Daydream" (travel/racing).  Barich's work has been included in "Best American Short Stories" and many other anthologies.  In addition to "The New Yorker", he has contributed to "Esquire", "Sports Illustrated", "American Poetry Review", "Salon", "Narrative", and other magazines and journals, and he is a Literary Laureate of the San Francisco Public Library.  He travels between Santa Monica, California and Dublin, Ireland.  He has also written a book entitled "A Pint of Plain," an account of his setting out to find a traditional authentic Irish pub.  It is a lament of sorts as he is seeking the famous Pat Cohen-type pub of the John Wayne film "The Quiet Man."  In 2010, Barich published Long Way Home: On the Trail of Steinbeck's America," his account of a 5,943-mile cross-country trip undertaken in the autumn of 2008 just prior to the presidential election.  He assesses the state of the nation in much the same way John Steinbeck did almost fifty years ago in "Travels With Charley."  From 2010 through 2012 he worked as the lead writer on the HBO series Luck about horses and racing created by David Milch and starring Dustin Hoffman and Nick Nolte.