As of March 2026, this website is no longer being updated. I now work mainly on climate issues, especially in Brighton and Hove, and new work can be found on the website of Climate:Change, our independent think-tank on socially inclusive action in the City: www.climatechangebh.org.uk.
Meanwhile, however, this website has over 850 entries, mostly representing my work on international development from 2010-2025. Among much else, there are over 50 book reviews, more than 20 papers and training cases on bridging research and policy and on managing think-tanks, nearly 100 articles on climate change, and many papers on other topics, including aid, food security and nutrition, and the future of international development. See ‘Topics and Themes’ for more details. I can be reached at sm@simonmaxwell.net.
Is Sir Mike Aaronson right to call for DfID to be merged back with the FCO? ODIOverseas Development Institute (London) Blog, May 2007
Participants at the launch of Roger Riddell’s new book, ‘Does Foreign Aid Really Work?’ at ODIOverseas Development Institute (London) last week were surprised to hear Sir Mike Aaronson, former director of the Save the Children Fund, suggest that DFIDDepartment for International Development should be merged back with the FCO................ (see link in title for full article)
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