Policy & Practice: Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era

Organisations such as MoveOn, 38 Degrees and Campact are mobilising members around the world and shaping public opinion on issues including climate change, trade, and refugees. Dr Nina Hall's new book, "Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era", provides a detailed investigation of how these organisations work to shape politics in the digital era. In this panel, Nina will be joined by two leading practitioners and theorists of organised social activism, Dr Duncan Green and Nat Whalley, to discuss the opportunities and challenges posed by transnational digital activism.

About the speakers  

Nina Hall is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Her research explores the role of transnational advocacy and international organizations in international relations. She is the author of Transnational Advocay in the Digital Era (OUP, 2022) and Displacement, Development and Climate Change: International Organizations Moving Beyond their Mandates (Routledge, 2016). 

Duncan Green is Senior Strategic Adviser at Oxfam GB and Professor in Practice in International Development at the London School of Economics. He is author of How Change Happens (OUP, October 2016) and From Poverty to Power: How Active Citizens and Effective States can Change the World (Oxfam International, 2008, 2nd ed. 2012). His daily development blog can be found on https://frompoverty.oxfam.org.uk/about/. He can be contacted on d.j.green@lse.ac.uk or on twitter at @fp2p.

Nat Whalley is CEO and Co-Founder of Organise, a fast-growing start-up on a mission to give everyone the tools, network and confidence to improve their life at work. The vision of Organise is for a world in which decent, fairly paid work is available and accessible to all, and where all of us are treated with dignity and respect at work. 

Chair: Phillip Ayoub is Professor of International Relations in the UCL Department of Political Science / School of Public Policy.