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Professor Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation and Research Professor at the Fletcher School, will examine the key metrics for different food crises and famines and explore the patterns of causation. Professor de Waal is an authority on famine and has worked on the Horn of Africa since the 1980s as a researcher and practitioner. He was listed among Foreign Policy’s 100 most influential international intellectuals in 2008 and Atlantic’s 29 ‘brave thinkers’ in 2009 and is the winner of the Huxley Award of the Royal Anthropological Institue in 2024. De Waal’s  recent books include: Mass Starvation: The history and future of famine (2018), and New Pandemics, Old Politics: 200 years of the war on disease and its alternativs (2021).