The World Fellows

Alexander Evans | United Kingdom | 2009

Senior Fellow, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University

Alexander Evans  is a counselor in the British diplomatic service currently on sabbatical as a Senior Fellow at Yale's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, and previously as the Henry A. Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy at the Library of Congress.  From 2009 to 2011 he served as a senior advisor first to the late Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and then to Ambassador Marc Grossman, the U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan.  Evans joined the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office in 2003.  He has served as the First Secretary Political in Islamabad and New Delhi and as lead policy advisor on counter-terrorism and counter-proliferation in the Policy Planning Staff.  Before joining the Foreign Office, Evans was affiliated with a number of think tanks, including Policy Exchange, Chatham House, the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation, and the Adam Smith Institute, all in London. A visiting senior research fellow at King’s College London, he is a former Gwilym Gibbon Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford.

Media

What do do about Pakistan? On Point, September 28, 2011

Pakistan and the Shadow of 9/11, Royal United Services Institute Journal, August/September 2011

TEDx Talk (video): Why Pessimism is Good, TEDxYaleWorldFellows, April 2011

Netcast (audio): Af-Pak: On-the-Ground Diplomacy, December 10,2009.  Click here for Netcast >>>