As of March 2026, this website is no longer being updated.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, 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.
The debate on the Financial Perspectives is hotting up
The EUEuropean Union works to a seven-year budget cycle, with the current Financial Perspectives due to expire in 2013, and negotiations beginning on the settlement after that. Simon and Mikaela Gavas have proposed a ten-point charter to guide discussion. Read the text here and vote on the proposals here. Further background is available here.