Full Name
Alexander Evans
Job Title
Professor in Practice in Public Policy, Associate Dean for Strategic Development
Company
LSE School of Public Policy
Speaker Bio
Professor Alexander Evans OBE FRHistS directs the LSE's Professional Skills Accelerator and the MPA in Data Science for Public Policy. He teaches graduate courses on international diplomacy and technology, data science and policymaking. He is also Director of the LSE IDEAS Ratiu Forum.
He joined the British Diplomatic Service in 2003. He has served in 10 Downing Street as an Adviser to the Prime Minister, as Strategy Director and Exco member in the Cabinet Office, and Director Cyber in the Foreign Office. He was a member of the Policy Planning Staff. His overseas roles include serving as Deputy and Acting High Commissioner to India and (briefly) Pakistan, leading the United Nations Security Council expert group on Daesh, Al Qaida and the Taliban, and being a senior advisor to the late Ambassador Richard Holbrooke in the U.S. Department of State during the first Obama Administration.
Prof. Evans is a former Henry Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress, Senior Fellow at Yale, and Gwilym Gibbon Fellow at Nuffield College Oxford. He has a Ph.D. in politics from SOAS. He has also worked in think-tanks in New York, Washington DC and London (the Asia Society, Stimson Centre, Chatham House, Policy Exchange, the Adam Smith Institute and the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation). He has worked as a regulator and journalist. In 2024 he was a Visiting Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is a current Research Fellow at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and a Senior Research Fellow at the British Centre for Army Leadership.
He was awarded an OBE in 2010 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2023.
He joined the British Diplomatic Service in 2003. He has served in 10 Downing Street as an Adviser to the Prime Minister, as Strategy Director and Exco member in the Cabinet Office, and Director Cyber in the Foreign Office. He was a member of the Policy Planning Staff. His overseas roles include serving as Deputy and Acting High Commissioner to India and (briefly) Pakistan, leading the United Nations Security Council expert group on Daesh, Al Qaida and the Taliban, and being a senior advisor to the late Ambassador Richard Holbrooke in the U.S. Department of State during the first Obama Administration.
Prof. Evans is a former Henry Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress, Senior Fellow at Yale, and Gwilym Gibbon Fellow at Nuffield College Oxford. He has a Ph.D. in politics from SOAS. He has also worked in think-tanks in New York, Washington DC and London (the Asia Society, Stimson Centre, Chatham House, Policy Exchange, the Adam Smith Institute and the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation). He has worked as a regulator and journalist. In 2024 he was a Visiting Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is a current Research Fellow at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and a Senior Research Fellow at the British Centre for Army Leadership.
He was awarded an OBE in 2010 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2023.
