Anthea Lawson

Anthea Lawson is a campaigner and writer. Her book The Entangled Activist is an insider tale, lifting the lid on our attempts to change the world. It looks at the righteousness, status quests and saviour complexes to show how activists can end up re-creating the problems they seek to fix. The Entangled Activist offers a different way to think about activism - whether we're doing it, worried that we ought to be doing it, or reacting to other people doing it.

Anthea has campaigned to shut down tax havens, prevent banks from facilitating corruption and environmental devastation, and control the arms trade. At Global Witness, a human rights and environmental organisation, she launched a campaign that changed the rules on secret company ownership and resulted in new laws in dozens of countries. She trained and worked as a reporter at The Times, and studied history at Cambridge.

For more information about her work see www.anthealawson.uk