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Kirsty McNeill
Kirsty McNeill is Save the Children’s Executive Director of Policy, Advocacy and Campaigns. She leads teams to galvanise the public and influence policymakers on humanitarian action, global development, and help for children here in the UK.
Previously, she founded a consultancy advising some of the world’s leading charities and spent three years as a Special Adviser in Number 10. She came to Downing Street having led the policy and influencing work of DATA, Bono and Bob Geldof’s advocacy organisation, in Britain, Germany, France, Italy and the EU institutions.
Before joining DATA she was on the board of Make Poverty History and managed the Stop AIDS Campaign, successfully negotiating a commitment to universal access to AIDS treatment from the 2005 G8. Today she is on the boards of the Holocaust Educational Trust, the Center for Countering Digital Hate and the Coalition for Global Prosperity and is a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations.
We know why we were left to die
The painful choices facing left interventionists, part of our series on #progressivedilemmas.
Labour is getting the politics of globalisation all wrong
Piece in The Fabian Review on the need for a progressive globalisation. Labour risks looking both self obsessed and crushingly irrelevant.
Miliband’s Three Big Europe Dilemmas
Latest in our #progressivedilemmas series is now online – this time on the left and the European Union. You can see the introductory piece here.
G8 delivery: 25% showmanship, 25% brinkmanship, 50% long hard graft
I have a Telegraph piece on where Mr Cameron's summit preparations have gone wrong. Enniskillen is no Gleneagles for one very simple reason: this PM hasn't...
Reflections from the #BigIF
The Enough Food for Everyone IF campaign held a rally in Hyde Park this weekend. Three things stood out as major highlights for me: 1) Wow. Getting...
What is a progressive foreign policy anyway?
Labour left office three years ago this month and may return to it just two years from now. That’s not a very long time in which to formulate a distinctive...
Whatever happened to the AIDS apocalypse?
When I first started working in the AIDS movement in the mid noughties the picture was plausibly apocalyptic, but on World AIDS Day 2012 we are celebrating...
Are gay rights a development issue?
Next week I am speaking at an event jointly organised by LGBT groups and development campaigners to consider whether legal reform drives social change. While...
In praise of advocacy’s amateurs
In light of the great news that Oxfam are shifting to “focus more on national level change and relatively less on often-fruitless global summitry”, I’ve been...
Reflections from a poacher, turned gamekeeper, turned poacher
In 2005 the development charities got the keys to Number 10 – but they still don’t understand why. Before I was an adviser in Gordon Brown’s Downing Street I...
What about the deserving rich?
In 1988, the majority of Britons couldn’t name their MP – but a staggering 92% of the population knew the name of an ANC leader imprisoned 6000 miles away in...
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