I'm Alex Evans and I run Larger Us, which works at the places where our states of mind and the state of the world meet, to build a larger us rather than a them-and-us world.

In 2017 I wrote a book called "The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren't Enough?" which is about the power of deep stories to unlock transformational change. There's a summary on BBC Focus here, an Economist review here, and you can buy it here.

I'm currently a Professor in Practice at Newcastle University's School of Arts of Cultures and a Senior Fellow at New York University's Center on International Cooperation, and have had work published by think tanks including Brookings in the US and Chatham House in the UK.

Until March 2018, I was a Campaign Director at Avaaz, the 50 million member global citizens' movement, where I led campaigns on areas like Brexit, tax havens, and human rights in Turkey and Yemen.

I've done two stints in the UN Secretary-General's office - one as part of the team that organised the first ever head of government level climate summit, back in 2007, and the other as the writer for the UN High-level Panel on Global Sustainability in 2010.

Last time Labour was in government in the UK, I was Special Adviser to two Secretaries of State (Valerie Amos and Hilary Benn) at the Department for International Development from 2003 to 2006.

I live with my wife Emma, our two kids and two cats in a little cottage on a hilltop in North Yorkshire.