Alex Evans

Alex Evans is founder of Larger Us, which explores how we can use psychology to reduce political tribalism and polarisation, a senior fellow at New York University, and author of The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren’t Enough? (Penguin, 2017). He is a former Campaign Director of the 50 million member global citizen’s movement Avaaz, special adviser to two UK Cabinet Ministers, climate expert in the UN Secretary-General’s office, and was Research Director for the Business Commission on Sustainable Development. Alex lives with his wife and two children in Yorkshire.

The Restorative Economy

Over the past six months, I’ve been working with my friend and colleague Rich Gower on a report for Tearfund, the Christian development NGO, entitled The...

Who’s going to pay for the SDGs?

In July, Addis Ababa will host a crucial summit on financing for development. If September’s summit on sustainable development goals (SDGs) in New York is...

The Great Acceleration

Great Acceleration 2015 from International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme A set of slides from the Stockholm Resilience Centre, who've just published their...

Our Unfinished Millennium Jubilee

Talk presented at Tearfund on why our Millennium Jubilee remains a work in progress - and what it would take to complete it (November 2014) Download Speech

The best climate change movie yet

Here's the trailer for the new climate film Disruption, which came out earlier this month. As Upworthy summarise, "he sat down in a cold, grey room and...

The six fathers of ISIS

(As defined by Ziad Majed and abridged by Amir Ahmed Nasr in this excellent post): ISIS is the offspring of more than one father, and the product of more than...

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