Duncan Green, Author of ‘How Change Happens’
Duncan’s the author of ‘How Change Happens’ - and is a leading thinker on what works (and doesn’t) to achieve progressive change. His chops are too long to list, but here’s a couple:
From 2004-2024, he worked for Oxfam, first as Head of Research, then as Strategic Adviser.
He’s currently the Director of the LSE's Activism, Influencing and Change Programme
This is a short, very candid episode, packed with stuff that’ll be up your street if you’re driven by fighting for change.
There’s tactics and tips in it, and Duncan also comments on an economist he hates-but-has-time-for, and what the sector conveniently leaves out of the conversation when discussing successful campaigns like Make Poverty History, which he was deeply involved in.
Here’s a preview of that last part:
“It was built on a lie.”
“Standing in Trafalgar Square, listening to Nelson Mandela read out a speech that had been written for him by a young white activist from Oxfam…”
“Two of the big activist self-congratulatory stories in recent decades: 1) Make Poverty History. 2) The Paris Climate Agreement. The thing that links those two breakthroughs is also airbrushed out of all accounts, which is…”
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