Alexander Evans
Alexander Evans is a counsellor in the British diplomatic service currently on sabbatical as the Henry A. Kissinger Chair in International Relations and Foreign Policy at the Library of Congress. In January 2012 he will move to become a senior fellow at Yale's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs.
He previously worked at the Department of State as a senior advisor, first to Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and then to Ambassador Marc Grossman, the U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Before working for the U.S. Alexander was First Secretary Political at the British High Commissions in Islamabad and New Delhi and a member of the Policy Planning Staff, London. He worked on former Prime Minister Tony Blair's 2007 policy review, Britain in the World, and was seconded to the Consular Crisis Team coordinating the Lebanon evacuation in the summer of 2006. He was also secretary to the Permanent Secretaries Management Group strategy sub-group. Alexander has been visiting, researching and writing on South Asia since the early 1990s.
Prior to joining the diplomatic service Alexander was research director at Policy Exchange and an associate fellow at Chatham House. From 1999 to 2003 he was a regular commentator on South Asia for BBC World TV, CNN and Reuters. Alexander has worked for the UN in Afghanistan, been an adjunct fellow at the Stimson Center, Washington DC, and worked in Macedonia as a political advisor and for the OSCE. He spent two years as director of studies of a financial think-tank, the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation, worked in the private office of the President of the General Medical Council, and began his career as an international policy advisor at the Adam Smith Institute.
Alexander was appointed an officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 Queen's Birthday Honours List. In September 2010 he was appointed a visiting Senior Research Fellow at King's College London, and he has previously held fellowships at Yale University (2009 World Fellow) and Nuffield College Oxford (Gwilym Gibbon Fellow, 2006-2010). He has served as an elected Council Member of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs from 2004-2007; as a member of The Round Table from 2002-2007; as a member of the Public Value of Security steering group, Demos, 2007; and of the Asia Programme Steering Group, Chatham House, 2007. In 2002 he was an international ambassador for Merlin, the U.K. based humanitarian NGO.
He lives in Washington DC.