Jamie Drummond, Executive Director and Global Strategy, ONE

Jamie is co-founder of the global advocacy organisation ONE, which has offices in Europe, the US and Africa. Along with 3 million members and many influential advocates, ONE calls on governments to keep their promises to support the citizens of the world’s poorest countries, especially in Africa, in achieving the Millennium Development Goals. ONE promotes a package of policies including debt cancellation, trade, governance reform and transparency, with a focus on effective aid and investment for real and sustainable results.

In 2005 ONE worked closely with the public and political leadership of the G7 and EU governments and the global entertainment industry to force consensus on a package of polices for African development; and has been working on ensuring these promises were kept, and built upon, ever since. In recent years ONE has pushed governance reforms such as extractives transparency legislation in the USA and EU, the Millennium Challenge Account and pro-poor conditions around debt cancellation. Together, these policies have helped African leadership to achieve historic transformational results.

Prior to co-founding ONE, Jamie helped start DATA, and worked as the global strategist for Jubilee 2000 Drop the Debt. Working with key partners, these movements made sure $110bn in developing country debt was cancelled, and that overall aid to Africa increased from $17bn in 2001 to $40bn in 2010, with significant initiatives to combat AIDS, TB, malaria and to increase childhood vaccinations and access to education put in place.

Currently Jamie and ONE are working to make sure that: the world squeezes the maximum value out of the last 2 years of the Millennium Goals framework; we begin the end of AIDS and other preventable diseases; we ensure an end to extreme hunger and famine; and we promote far more transparency and accountability in development policy and practice.

In 2007, Jamie was elected a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He has travelled widely in Africa and Asia and has a Masters in Development from the London School of Oriental and African Studies. Jamie regularly speaks on development issues and building popular movements.