How to Fight Inequality
Ben Phillips, NYU
Ben Phillips is the author of How to Fight Inequality.
He has combined the roles of NGO director, political advisor, civil society activist, and writer. He has lived and worked in four continents and fourteen cities. He began his development work at the grassroots, as a teacher and ANC activist living in Mamelodi township, South Africa, in 1994, just after the end of apartheid. He has led programmes and campaigns teams in Oxfam, ActionAid, Save the Children, the Children’s Society, the Global Call to Action Against Poverty and the Global Campaign for Education. He has addressed the United Nations and been appointed to the Civil Society Advisory Committee of the United Nations Development Programme.
He co-founded the Fight Inequality Alliance, the growing movement for a more equal world, that brings major NGOs together with social movements, rights activists, environmentalists, women’s groups, faith groups and trade unions, to campaign together for action on economic and social inequality. He advises the UN, governments, and civil society organisations from across the world on how inequality can be beaten. He has been the Hewlett Fellow of Public Policy at the Kellogg Institute at Notre Dame, the Resident Fellow on inequality at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, and the guest lecturer on global inequality for the Cambridge University series and book Capitalism on the Edge.
He has written for the Guardian, the Financial Times, the New Internationalist and Reuters, among others, and appeared regularly on TV, including on CNN, Al Jazeera and the BBC.
This talk will be an introduction from Ben, followed by a discussion – please do come with questions to what we hope will be an inspiring and constructive discussion!
Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/98605321260?pwd=bll5YncyS3VXdi9qSWo1elo5TVc5UT09
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