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As of March 2026, this website is no longer being updated.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.

A six-point plan for reforming EU aid

A six-point plan for reforming EUEuropean Union aid, Europe's World, Autumn 2008

Events in 2009 will offer Europe an opportunity to reform its own aid architecture and establish leadership of the international development agenda. Simon Maxwell, who heads the UK’s Overseas Development Institute, sets out his reform plan.
The Lisbon Treaty may or may not pass, but the evidence is incontrovertible. In the field of international development, at any rate, the agenda is moving sharply in a trans-national or multilateral direction, on topics where Europe has a strong comparative advantage. Whether the EUEuropean Union is able to take full advantage of this opportunity will depend not mainly on Lisbon, but on a wider reform process, touching especially on the instruments of EUEuropean Union engagement around the world. 2009 will be a crucial year for change................. (see link in title for full article)

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