What would Brexit mean for UK aid and trade?

By // 15 June 2016

In this second installment of Brexit commentary from Kevin Watkins — executive director of the Overseas Development Institute and recently appointed head of Save the Children U.K. — Watkins explores the trade and foreign policy implications for Britain's aid strategy in the event the United Kingdom leaves the European Union.

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  • Kevin Watkins

    Kevin Watkins is the chief executive of Save the Children UK. He joined the Overseas Development Institute as executive director in June 2013. He is a former nonresident senior fellow with the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution, and was previously director and lead author of the U.N.'s Human Development Report And the Education for All Global Monitoring Report. Before joining the U.N., he worked for 13 years at Oxfam. He is a visiting professor of international development at the London School of Economics and senior visiting fellow at Oxford University's Global Economic Governance Program.

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