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Hassan Damluji (Arabic: حسن الدملوجي) is a British-Iraqi development expert and author. He is the co-founder of the think-tank Global Nation, which focuses on improving international cooperation to tackle issues like climate change and pandemics. He is a senior fellow at the London School of Economics, and formerly Deputy Director at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He is the author of the Responsible Globalist, published by Penguin Allen Lane in 2019, and described by Bill Gates as "Thought provoking and well-written... a good read for people who care about solving global problems.".
Biography
Damluji was born in London as Hassan Al-Damluji. He later changed his name by removing the epithet "Al". His father moved to the UK from Baghdad in 1970 and his mother is originally Irish. He is the nephew of Iraqi politician and women's rights campaigner Maysoon Al-Damluji. He is married to fashion entrepreneur Anna Jewsbury.
Damluji is a board member of the Lives & Livelihoods Fund, a $2.5 billion fund which is the "largest ever Middle-East based, fully-multilateral development initiaitve", according to Gulf News.
Published works
His book The Responsible Globalist: What Citizens of the World Can Learn from Nationalism was published in 2019. Praise for the book includes from actor Riz Ahmed: "Visionary. . . A must-read for anyone who wants solutions to our most important problems"; screenwriter Richard Curtis "This is the book I would have written if I were smart enough"; and philanthropist and founder of Microsoft Bill Gates "Thought provoking and well-written... a good read for people who care about solving global problems. Damluji puts forth ideas that can help make global systems more successful."
List of Publications
= Books
=The Responsible Globalist (London: Allen Lane, 2019), ISBN 9780241355091
= Articles
="Global cooperation is under threat - here's how to revive it", City AM (September 2019)
"A travel ban won't prevent extremism, it will make it worse", The Guardian (January 2017)
"Applying business sense to philanthropy in the Gulf", The National (November 2015)
"Teaching the British reduces the killing", The New Statesman (March 2008)
Awards
He has been named every year since 2015 as one of the 100 most influential Arabs under 40, by Arabian Business.