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Susan George President

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Susan George is one of TNI's most renowned people for her long-term and ground-breaking analysis of global issues. "Shadow Sovereigns: How Global Corporations are Seizing Power"  is the newest of her seventeen widely translated books. She describes her work in a cogent way that has come to define TNI: "The job of the responsible social scientist is first to uncover these forces [of wealth, power and control], to write about them clearly, without jargon... and finally..to take an advocacy position in favour of the disadvantaged, the underdogs, the victims of injustice."

To contact Susan George : susangeorge(at)free.fr    

Honours/Awards:

Honorary doctorates from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia of Madrid as well as the first “Outstanding Public Scholar Award" of the International Political Economy section of the International Studies Association. Susan George is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Media experience:

Susan George is a frequent interviewee in print, radio and  television and regularly contributes articles to Le Monde diplomatique, Open Democracy, El Pais, New Internationalist and The Nation.

Speaking arrangements​:

Please use only the biographical and practical information as well as photos supplied on www.tni.org. Please do not send any correspondence for me to the Transnational Institute. I prefer to receive all communications via e-mail: susangeorge[at]free.fr. If you require a postal address, please ask me for it via e-mail. Thank you.

For more information please consult this pdf.  (en français)

Latest work

  • Taking Health Back from Corporations Webinar recording

    • COVID-19
    • Stop Corporate Impunity
    • Democratic Public Services

    This webinar brought together experts in healthcare and activists at the forefront of struggles for equitable universal public healthcare from across the globe. It examined the obstacles to access to medicines, the role of Big Pharma, the struggles against health privatisation, and the required changes in global governance of health to prevent future pandemics and bring about public healthcare for all.

    Video by
    • Susan George
    • Mónica Vargas
    • David Legge
    • Kajal Bhardwaj
    • Mark Heywood
    • Baba Aye

  • Video: Another Europe How to realise a fairer Europe with less inequality?

    New Politics

    How another Europe can be built, "although this is not a recipe, because that is impossible."

    Multi-media by
    Susan George

  • Susan George: Trump in Europe

    Authoritarianism

    Susan George, president of the Transnational Institute on Trump and the European reaction to his presidency, one year after his election. The video was recorded at the National Press Club in Washington DC, organised by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung—New York Office and the Institute for Policy Studies.

    Article by
    • Susan George
    • Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung
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