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.

Winning for Women

Guest post from Yvonne Jeffery, @bakingforpeace, campaigner at Save the Children, reflecting on the latest in Save the Children's #changehistory series. You...

How the tax fight is being won

Guest post from Alice Macdonald, Save the Children's head of action/2015 campaign, @alicemac83. As part of Save the Children’s History of Change series (see...

Responding to Russia

Latest of our #progressivedilemmas is on what we might expect from a future Labour Russia policy. Britain’s political class did not distinguish itself in its...

Development Dilemmas

In our development dilemmas piece we consider what progressives should do now the split between foreign and development policy no longer exists: Should aid be...

After Afghanistan

In the latest of our #progressivedilemmas we consider what Labour’s approach to failing states should be. 2014 is the last year of British military...

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