Hassan Damluji


Hassan Damluji 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.

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 initiative", according to Gulf News.

Published works

His book The Responsible Globalist: What Citizens of the World Can Learn from Nationalism was published in 2019.

Awards

He has been named every year since 2015 as one of the 100 most influential Arabs under 40, by Arabian Business.