Kirsty McNeill leads Save the Children’s 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.
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The question campaigners hate to answer, but need to
Asking ourselves why our advocacy doesn’t work can hurt but it also helps us to understand what we need to do next.