As of March 2026, this website is no longer being updated.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.
Informal Network of DAC Development Communicators - Annual Meeting 2009 (funded by the Irish Department for Foreign Affairs)
In Simon's presentation to the Informal Network of DACDevelopment Assistance Committee (of the OECD) Development Communicators - Annual Meeting 2009 he did the following things:
- Drew some connections between the Think - Tanks world and the communicators world, around the theme of policy entrepreneurship;
- Discussed how the development challenge and narrative is changing, post crisis and in the face of climate change and other new issues;
- Identified five paradoxes facing communications in that context; and
- Proposed some guiding principles, in the form of a ten point programme.