Alex Urwin is currently special advisor to the CEO at the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, one of the world’s largest climate and development philanthropies. He has also spent time as an advisor to the CEO of the inaugural Africa Climate Summit, a speechwriter and advisor to the COP26 President, and a researcher to the UK prime minister.
Urwin has also contributed commentary and analysis to the likes of Foreign Policy, Atlantic Council, and Climate Home, as well as curating and participating in podcasts for Aspen UK. Outside of the world of foreign policy, he’s also a published non-fiction author and playwright.
He has degrees from Oxford and Columbia, and he’s also an Aspen UK Rising Leaders Fellow.