As of March 2026, this website is no longer being updated.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.
Where Europe Stands in the New Aid Architecture and Why We Need a New €5bn European MDG Fund
Where Europe Stands in the New Aid Architecture and Why We Need a New €5bn European MDG Fund, ODIOverseas Development Institute (London) Opinions, 70, June 2006
As Europeans, we can be proud of our collective contribution to 2005, the year of international development….. We should also be aware, however, that the hardest decisions may yet be to come, in particular about the changing shape of the international aid industry................ (see link in title for full article)