Alexander de Waal Session Overview

ALEX DE 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 conflict, food security, and related issues since the 1980s as a researcher and practitioner. De Waal served as a senior advisor to the African Union High Level Panel on Sudan and South Sudan. 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 recipient of the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Huxley Award. De Waal’s recent books include The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, War and the Business of Power; Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine; and New Pandemics, Old Politics: 200 Years of the War on Disease and its Alternatives.