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Jeremy HEIMANS

Co-Author, New Power, USA & Co-Founder and CEO, Purpose, USA

Mr Jeremy Heimans is the co-founder and CEO of Purpose, a global organization that builds and supports movements for a more open, just, and habitable world. He is the co-founder of GetUp!, an Australian political organisation with more members than all of Australia's political parties combined; and Avaaz, the world's largest online citizen movement. He is a recipient of the Ford Foundation's 75th Anniversary Visionary Award for his work as a movement pioneer, and has been named one of Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business. Together with Henry Timms, Jeremy is the co-author of the 2018 bestseller "New Power", recognised by the New York Times' David Brooks as "the best window I've seen into this new world", and by The Guardian as "a manual on how to navigate the 21st century". Their thinking on "new power" has been featured as the Big Idea in Harvard Business Review, and Jeremy's TED talk on the topic has been viewed more than 1.4 million times.

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