Hassan Damluji

Hassan Damluji is Founder and Executive Director of the think tank Global Nation. He advises many of the critical institutions for international cooperation, including philanthropies, UN institutions and governments. He is also an author, a Senior Fellow in International Relations at the London School of Economics, and a board member of multiple organziations including being Chair of the Iraq Fund for Higher Education, which oversees Baghdad Business School. 

Hassan was a strategic architect of the WHO Pandemic Hub and has built global networks for genomic surveillance and AI-driven disease tracking, as well as a cross-UN response to the Secretary-General’s Call to Action on Extreme Heat. He has co-founded and sat on the board of major development initiatives including the $2bn Lives and Livelihoods Fund and the Global Institute for Disease Elimination. 

He spent a decade at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, serving as Deputy Director for Global Policy and Advocacy. His book, The Responsible Globalist (Penguin Allen Lane), was described by Riz Ahmed as “visionary”, by Bill Gates as “a good read for people who care about solving global problems” and by Richard Curtis as "the book I would have written if I was smart enough".