Alex de Waal
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), is the executive director of the World Peace Foundation at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. 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.
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.