Alex de Waal

Alex de Waal
OBE
Born
Alexander William Lowndes de Waal

(1963-02-22) February 22, 1963 (age 61)
Cambridge
EducationThe King's School, Canterbury
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
Occupation(s)Human rights activist, author, academic
Organization(s)World Peace Foundation, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
FatherVictor de Waal
RelativesEdmund de Waal, Thomas de Waal (brothers)

Alexander William Lowndes de Waal (born 22 February 1963), is the executive director of the World Peace Foundation at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.[1] He is an authority on famine and has worked on the Horn of Africa since the 1980s as a researcher and practitioner. He was listed among Foreign Policy’s 100 most influential international intellectuals in 2008 and Atlantic’s 29 ‘brave thinkers’ in 2009 and is the winner of the Huxley Award of the Royal Anthropological Institute in 2024.[2][3][4]

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.[5]

  1. ^ "The World Peace Foundation Comes to the Fletcher School | Tufts Fletcher School". Archived from the original on 9 July 2012. Retrieved 28 October 2011.
  2. ^ "Top 100 Public Intellectuals". Foreign Policy. 22 October 2024. Retrieved 21 October 2024.
  3. ^ "Brave Thinkers". The Atlantic. 1 November 2009. ISSN 2151-9463. Retrieved 21 October 2024.
  4. ^ "Huxley Memorial Medal and Lecture Prior Recipients". Royal Anthropological Institute. Retrieved 21 October 2024.
  5. ^ old Alexander De Waal bio at Harvard University from 28 January 2008, courtesy of the Internet Wayback Machine (accessed 13 June 2009)