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Alex Evans
Alex Evans is a Senior Fellow at the Center on International Cooperation (CIC) at New York University, and the author of The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren't Enough? (Penguin, 2017), a book about the power of deep stories to unlock transformational change. He lives in North Yorkshire and is currently working on political polarisation and learning dry stone walling. Full biog here.
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How to run your own foreign aid program
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Silvio per il Nobel!
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Reaction of the day
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New guest contributors on Global Dashboard
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Everything you need to know about black carbon in 3 mins
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBzmfPZ5Pxo[/youtube]
Hans Blix on DPRK’s nuclear test
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH3mnv8Y8BU[/youtube]
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Will the real leaders’ summit process please stand up?
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US immigrant professionals returning home
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How to slash global warming AND save 1.6 million lives a year
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David Simon on US drug policy
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Those secret US / China climate talks in full
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Mona Sutphen (now White House deputy chief of staff) in early 2008
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO64dp5dORM[/youtube]
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