Dr Alexander Evans OBE

Biography

Alexander Evans is Strategy Director at the Cabinet Office.

A career diplomat, his previous roles include serving as Deputy and Acting High Commissioner to both India and (briefly) Pakistan, an adviser in 10 Downing Street, Foreign Office Director Cyber, and a senior adviser at the U.S. Department of State. He also led a U.N. Security Council expert mission in New York.

He has held posts at Yale, Oxford and the Library of Congress (as the Henry Kissinger Chair). He has also worked in the private sector, think-tanks, regulation and journalism.

Alexander is a Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE Ideas and a Governor of the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation.

Previous roles in government

  • Strategy Director
    • 2021 to 2022
  • British Deputy High Commissioner New Delhi
    • 2016 to 2018
  • Acting British High Commissioner to India
    • 2015 to 2016
  • British Deputy High Commissioner New Delhi
    • 2015 to 2015