Alex Woodson is editorial manager and digital content producer at Carnegie Council. He was the host of Global Ethics Review and the Carnegie New Leaders Podcast and was contributing editor for Policy Innovations.
Woodson previously worked as a reporter for The Hollywood Reporter, mostly covering digital media news, and as a contributing writer for the United Nations Association's The Interdependent. He has also worked for Scholastic and the National Basketball Association.
In addition, he has interned at Council on Foreign Relations, Worldwatch Institute, and InterAction.
Woodson is a graduate of New York University, where he received a BA in journalism. He also received an MA in global communication from The George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs.
Featured Work
DEC 20, 2018 • Podcast
Global Ethics Weekly: A "Carefully Optimistic" Update on Yemen, with Waleed Alhariri
Waleed Alhariri, U.S. director of the Sana'a Center for Strategic Studies, discusses major developments in the Yemen conflict, which remains the world's worst humanitarian ...
DEC 13, 2018 • Podcast
Global Ethics Weekly: Foreign Policy After the Midterms, with Nikolas Gvosdev
Carnegie Council Senior Fellow Nikolas Gvosdev and host Alex Woodson discuss the state of foreign policy after the midterm elections. How can newcomers like Alexandria ...
DEC 6, 2018 • Podcast
Global Ethics Weekly: The End of World War I & the Future of American Democracy, with Ted Widmer
Historian and Carnegie Council Senior Fellow Ted Widmer looks back to the end of the First World War, and the upheaval that followed it in ...
NOV 29, 2018 • Podcast
Global Ethics Weekly: Women's Employment & Working in a War Zone, with Mariel Davis
Education for Employment's Mariel Davis discusses some of the many issues surrounding women's employment in the Middle East and North Africa, focusing on the story ...
NOV 15, 2018 • Podcast
Global Ethics Weekly: The Right to Science, with Helle Porsdam
The right to benefit from scientific progress was enshrined in the United Nations' 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, explains University of Copenhagen's Professor Helle Porsdam. ...
NOV 8, 2018 • Podcast
Global Ethics Weekly: The U.S. & the Taliban Before & After 9/11, with Jonathan Cristol
When most Americans think about the Taliban, their minds go to Osama bin Laden, terrorism, and the endless war in Afghanistan. But as Jonathan Cristol ...
NOV 1, 2018 • Podcast
Global Ethics Weekly: Climate Change Mitigation & Governance, with C2G2's Janos Pasztor
As activists, politicians, and environmentalists come to terms with a dire report on global warming from the UN's IPCC, Janos Pasztor, executive director of the ...
OCT 25, 2018 • Podcast
Global Ethics Weekly: Youth Unemployment & Refugees in the Middle East & North Africa, with Mariel Davis
The Middle East and North Africa has a huge youth and young adult population--65 percent of the people in the region are under 30--but unfortunately ...
OCT 18, 2018 • Podcast
Global Ethics Weekly: Science Fiction, Micro-democracy, & Information, with Malka Older
Malka Older has spent time as an aid worker in Darfur, Indonesia, and Japan, as was discussed in last week's podcast, but she also has ...
OCT 11, 2018 • Podcast
Global Ethics Weekly: Disaster Response & Ethics, with Malka Older
Former Senior Fellow Malka Older, a novelist and aid worker, details the ethical and logistical sides of disaster response, drawing on her experiences in Sri ...