Kel Currah

Kel’s work focuses on nexus of strategy and collaboration – harnessing the power of people and teams to make change. Kel’s has over 20 years experience working in the field of international advocacy. He has worked for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation where he lead their organisation’s international advocacy strategies, he has help lead the advocacy work of one of the largest international non-governmental organisations, World Vision International, and was a member of the steering committee of Make Poverty History in 2005, one off the most successful change campaigns in the UK. Kel was also on the founding board of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty, an initiative launched by Nelson Mandela and Brazilian President Lula da Silva in 2005 ahead of the G8 that year.

Since establishing What World Strategies in 2009, Kel has mapped the political and social change sector, organised consultations, and designed advocacy strategies for organisations such as Oxfam, the World Food Programme, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), The World Health Organisation, the OECD, the Malala Fund and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Kel speaks on change, advocacy and collaboration and has had his work featured in academic publications as well as the The Guardian.

Kel believes that change and advocacy, the art of influencing decision-makers, is a key skill for any organisation and its staff. Kel uses his skills from the international change industry to help organisations empower their staff, create strategies, build collaboration and use team-work to deliver their objectives.