Alexander Evans is a member of the British diplomatic service and a visiting senior research fellow in War Studies at King's College, London. He is currently Britain's Deputy High Commissioner to India, and was Acting High Commissioner from November 2015 to March 2016. He formerly served as coordinator of an United Nations Security Council expert team, appointed by Ban Ki-moon. He was previously a senior fellow at Yale's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, where he taught undergraduate and graduate courses in international relations. In 2012 he also led an Asia Society review of U.S. South Asia policy. He is a former Henry A. Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Library of Congress, and has 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. government Alexander served as a British diplomat in Islamabad and New Delhi and as a member of the Policy Planning Staff, London.
Prior to the British diplomatic service Alexander was research director at Policy Exchange and an associate fellow at Chatham House. He was also a regular commentator for BBC World TV, CNN and Reuters. Alexander has worked for the U.N. 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 was 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 Adam Smith International Ltd.
Alexander has published extensively on international affairs, contributing to books and journals including Foreign Affairs. He has previously held fellowships at Yale University (2009 World Fellow) and Nuffield College Oxford (Gwilym Gibbon Fellow, 2006-2010). He has a Ph.D. in politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and was appointed an officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 Queen's Birthday Honours List.
Prior to the British diplomatic service Alexander was research director at Policy Exchange and an associate fellow at Chatham House. He was also a regular commentator for BBC World TV, CNN and Reuters. Alexander has worked for the U.N. 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 was 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 Adam Smith International Ltd.
Alexander has published extensively on international affairs, contributing to books and journals including Foreign Affairs. He has previously held fellowships at Yale University (2009 World Fellow) and Nuffield College Oxford (Gwilym Gibbon Fellow, 2006-2010). He has a Ph.D. in politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and was appointed an officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 Queen's Birthday Honours List.