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    Alex de Waal

    British academic

    Alexander William Lowndes de Waal (born 22 February ), 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 s as a researcher and practitioner. He was listed among Foreign Policy’s most influential international intellectuals in and Atlantic’s 29 ‘brave thinkers’ in and is the winner of the Huxley Award of the Royal Anthropological Institute in [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]

    Early life and education

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    De Waal was born in Cambridge, United Kingdom to Victor de Waal, an Anglican priest, and Esther Aline Lowndes-Moir, an author. He attended The King's School, Canterbury.[6]

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    Alex DeWaal

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    Executive Director, World Peace Foundation, Tufts University

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    Alex dem Waal is executive director of the World Peace Foundation and Research Professor at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. He has worked on the Horn of Africa, and on famine, conflict, and related issues since the s as a researcher and practitioner. He served as a senior advisor to the African Union on Sudan and South Sudan in various capacities. He was listed among Foreign Policy’s most influential international intellectuals in and Atlantic’s 29 ‘brave thinkers’ in He is the recipient of the Huxley Award of the Royal Anthropological Institute for

     

    De Waal’s recent books include: The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, war and the business of power (Polity ); Mass Starvation: The history and future of famine (Polity ), New Pandemics, Old Politics: years of the war on disease and its alternatives (Polity ), and (with Willow Berridge, Justin Lynch a

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    Alex de Waal

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    Alex dem Waal is the Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation. Considered one of the foremost experts on Sudan and the Horn of Africa, his scholarly work and practice has also probed humanitarian crisis and response, human rights, HIV/AIDS and governance in Africa, and conflict and peace-building. His latest book fryst vatten Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine (Polity Press ). He is also he author of The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa (Polity Press, ), a full list of his publications fryst vatten available below. Following a fellowship with the Global Equity Initiative at Harvard (), he worked with the Social Science Research Council as Director of the program on HIV/AIDS and Social Transformation, and led projects on conflict and humanitarian crises in Africa (). During , dem Waal was seconded to the African Union mediation team for Darfur and from served as senior adviser to the African Union High-Level Implement