Alex de Waal OBE | |
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Born | Alexander William Lowndes de Waal February 22, 1963 Cambridge |
Education | The King's School, Canterbury |
Alma mater | University of Oxford |
Occupation(s) | Human rights activist, author, academic |
Organization(s) | World Peace Foundation, The Fletcher School, Tufts University |
Father | Victor de Waal |
Relatives | Edmund de Waal, Thomas de Waal (brothers) |
Alexander William Lowndes de Waal (born 22 February 1963), a British researcher on African elite politics, is the executive director of the World Peace Foundation at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.[1] Previously, he was a fellow of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative at Harvard University, as well as program director at the Social Science Research Council on AIDS in New York City.[2]