Alex Evans

Non-resident Fellow, Head, Resource Scarcity, Climate Change and Multilateralism

Email: alex.evans @ nyu.edu

Alex Evans is a non-resident fellow at the Center on International Cooperation (CIC) at New York University, where he runs CIC’s work on climate change and global public goods.  He was seconded from CIC to the United Nations from June to October 2007 as part of the team charged with planning and executing the UN Secretary-General’s High Level Event on climate change.  His other current areas of research are on the international implications of rising food prices (a joint project between CIC and Chatham House), and the changing nature of influence in 21st century diplomacy (with Demos). He also co-edits www.GlobalDashboard.org, the global risk and foreign policy blog.

From 2003 to 2006, Alex was Special Adviser to Hilary Benn MP, then UK Secretary of State for International Development, where he worked across DFID’s policy agenda, including UN reform, governance in fragile states and the Middle East Peace Process.  He focused particularly on climate change, including working as a member of the cross-Whitehall team charged with working up the Prime Minister’s climate change agenda for the 2005 G8 summit at Gleneagles.

Prior to joining DFID in 2003, Alex worked in a range of other climate and energy-focused roles, including as the head of the climate and energy research program of the Institute for Public Policy Research (2002-3), at the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs as a specialist on emissions trading (2002), as communications director at the Global Commons Institute (2000-2) and as a political consultant on climate and energy policy (1998-9).  He has an MSc in environment from Imperial College at the University of London, and an MA in politics from the University of Edinburgh.

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