Ben Jackson
Ben is NPC’s Policy and Programmes Partner. He provides senior support on strategy and delivery for effective programmes to influence policy, shape public narratives, and convene civil society to win social change, especially via multi-partner collaborations such as the Everyone’s Environment programme.
He has over three decades policy, advocacy, communications and campaign experience leading not-for-profits to secure change in policy and practice, as well as bouts in Whitehall and Westminster. Leading coalitions and networks that deliver impact has been at the heart of his work. He was founding Director of the Asylum Reform Initiative, an alliance of leading refugee organisations, where he built and led the UK’s largest ever campaign coalition for refugee rights, Together With Refugees – now over 600 members strong.
Previous roles include: CEO of Bond, the UK network of international development NGOs, where he set up a programme to explore sector futures and a joint campaign that secured the 0.7% aid commitment in law; UK Director of Crisis Action, forging international NGO campaign coalitions to protect civilians in conflict; Director of Communications and Campaigns at Shelter; Director of Action for Southern Africa, successor to the Anti-Apartheid Movement, leading campaigns on South Africa’s trade deal with the EU; and Associate Director at Forster Communications, leading projects with public, private and voluntary sector clients. He has been on the boards of Friends of the Earth and the Fairtrade Foundation, and of a range of international NGO networks. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, focusing on civil society strategies responding to globalisation and populism – reflected in the book From Anger to Action: Inside the global movements for social justice, peace, and a sustainable planet he co-authored with Harriet Lamb (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021).
Policy and Programmes Partner
