Paul Hilder is a global public entrepreneur, organiser and strategist. He is Campaigns Director of the worldwide movement Avaaz.org, which has grown to over five and a half million members worldwide since he helped launch it in 2007, and a board director of the British campaigning movement 38 Degrees. Previously, he co-founded openDemocracy.net, the global debate network.

He has worked on conflict resolution, democracy and social innovation internationally, in particular in Europe and the Middle East. He is the author of Contentious Citizens (Carnegie / Young Foundation, 2007) and a Trustee of the human rights charity Article 1. From October 2010, he will be the new Director of Campaigns in the UK for Oxfam, the global development movement.