Alex de Waal

Alexander William Lowndes de Waal (born 22 February 1963) is a British anthropologist and 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. Provided by Wikipedia