Experience
- Head of Executive Strategy at Oxfam International
- Steering Committee of The Economist Impact’s Health Inclusivity Index
- Co-founder of People’s Vaccine Alliance
Expertise
- Cost of living, wealth and income inequality
- Tax and revenue policy
- International economic policy
Education
- The University of Manchester, B.S.
Recent Coverage
NOVEMBER 24, 2024
Rolling Stone: Inequality will explode in Trump’s second term
Trump’s win represents the long triumph of a bipartisan embrace of oligarchy over our politics — and the ultra-rich are about to get even richer – Commentary by Nabil Ahmed
JANUARY 15, 2024
CNN: Oxfam releases its inequality report, highlighting divide between the richest people and the rest of the globe
Oxfam’s Director of Economic Justice Nabil Ahmed shares startling statistics about the future of wealth inequality, and the extreme wealth some are set to acquire in the current economic climate.
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
VOA: Oxfam: ‘Oligarchy’ of super-rich undermining cooperation to tackle poverty, climate change
“We live in a world in which mega-corporations… are paying next to or little to no tax basically. Not like the small businesses, not like the rest of us,” Ahmed said.
“It’s such a phenomenal lost opportunity because we know governments, rich and poor, across the world need to claw back these revenues to be able to invest in their people, to be able to meet their rights,” he added.
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About Nabil
As Director of Economic and Racial Justice at Oxfam America, Nabil leads the organization’s agenda to tackle inequality in the US and internationally, working with policymakers, advocates and movements.
He is a strategic advocate and convener, influencing policies and public discourse on wealth and income inequality, financing, health and worker power at the intersection of class, race and gender. He has advanced efforts to win policy progress in the US and internationally, including on issues of taxation and vaccine equity. Nabil formerly led global inequality initiatives at Oxfam International, driving efforts with governments and at the UN and G7, and co-founded the People’s Vaccine Alliance.
Nabil is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Equitable Transition. He also sat on the Steering Committee for the Health Inclusivity Index of The Economist Group, was an Expert for Club de Madrid’s “System Change for Economic Transformation” Policy Dialogue and supported the G7 Gender Equality Advisory Council.
Nabil was formerly a national organizer, worked in the private sector at Unilever, and is a graduate of the University of Manchester, UK.
