As of March 2026, this website is no longer being updated.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