Professor Alex de Waal

Professorial Research Fellow

Department of International Development

About me

Prof De Waal is Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation and Research Programme Director with the Conflict Research Programme at LSE.  He also contributes to CPAID research at the Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa.  Prof de Waal is one of the foremost experts on Sudan, South Sudan and the Horn of Africa with particular reference to humanitarian crisis and response, conflict, mediation and peacebuilding.  He has served with the African Union mediation team on Darfur and as an advisor to the African Union High Level Implementation Panel for Sudan.

Selected publications