As Director of International Engagement, Alexander oversees both Global Thematic Networks based at Transparency International UK, addressing corruption in the global health and the defence and security sectors. Alexander has worked for twenty-five years in international consulting, including strategy, policy, planning, hostage negotiation, fundraising, crisis management, operations, disarmament, and effectiveness.
From 1995 to 2012 he served in the United Nations in sixteen peacekeeping, post-conflict reconstruction and humanitarian aid missions around the world including Bosnia, Kosovo, East Timor, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Haiti, Angola, Liberia, Eastern Slavonia, Iraq, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tajikistan, Darfur, Central African Republic, Syria, and South Sudan.
His applied research focuses on new approaches to global, applying biomimetic models from neuroscience, organic chemistry, genetic engineering, ecology, and quantum physics to similarly interdependent and probabilistic challenges like endemic poverty, environmental degradation, infectious diseases, representative governance, infant mortality, food scarcity, and climate change.