Alex de Waal

Alexander William Lowndes de Waal (22 February 1963) is a British writer and researcher on African issues. 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. De Waal is currently director of the World Peace Foundation at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He is also a co-director of Justice Africa, London. His father is Rev.d Dr Victor de Waal, Dean of Canterbury from 1976 to 1986 and his brother Edmund de Waal is a ceramic artist. De Waal was educated at The King's School, Canterbury and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he read Psychology with Philosophy. He received a D.Phil. in social...