Alex de Waal, PhD, Visiting Scientist

Alex de Waal, a writer and activist on African issues, is a Visiting Scientist at the FXB Center. He is a program director at the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), engaged in projects on HIV/AIDS and Social Transformation and on Emergencies and Humanitarian Action. In addition, Dr. de Waal is a fellow of the Global Equity Initiative at Harvard and a director of Justice Africa, London. In his twenty-year career, he has studied the social, political and health dimensions of famine, war, genocide and the HIV/AIDS epidemic, especially in the Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes. He has been at the forefront of mobilizing African and international responses to these problems. His books include: Famine that Kills: Darfur, Sudan, 1984-5 (Oxford University Press, 1989), Islamism and Its Enemies in the Horn of Africa, (Indiana University Press, 2004), and Darfur: A Short History of a Long War, (with Julie Flint; Zed Books 2005). Dr. de Waal’s latest book, AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis—Yet, is published in Zed Books' African Arguments series.