Ian Smillie is working on his memoir, Under Development. He lives in Ottawa.
Articles by Ian Smillie
- Just Hand It Over? (June 2023)
The shifting foundations of charitable giving - As We Know It (September 2022)
For charity’s an argument - The Philanthropist’s Dilemma (December 2020)
Elsewhere they meet with charity - Broken Promised Land (May 2015)
A review of Namibia’s Rainbow Project: Gay Rights in an African Nation, by Robert Lorway - Malleable Cannon Fodder (September 2013)
A review of Child to Soldier: Stories from Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army, by Opiyo Oloya - Resource Fever (November 2012)
A review of The Devil’s Curve: A Journey into Power and Profit at the Amazon’s Edge, by Arno Kopecky - A Brilliant Polemic (December 2011)
A review of Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies and Aid, by Samantha Nutt - “Responsibilizing” the Poor (June 2011)
A review of Governing the Poor: Exercises of Poverty Reduction, Practices of Global Aid, by Suzan Ilcan and Anita Lacey - The Dove is Never Free (September 2008)
A review of James Orbinski’s An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-First Century and Richard Heinzl’s Cambodia Calling: A Memoir from the Frontlines of Humanitarian Aid