Alex Wilks

Alex is a Senior Strategist at the Sunrise Project, working with a wide range of analysts and activists worldwide to drive and assess investor actions on fossil fuel phaseouts. Previously, as Coordinator of the Bretton Woods Project, and then of the European Network on Debt and Development, he scrutinized World Bank and IMF policies and built civil society pressure for them to change their policies and practices. Later, he helped build Avaaz to become an independent movement involving 60 million citizens, leading campaigns calling on governments to forge a climate agreement in Paris, and to stop Rupert Murdoch taking over Europe’s biggest independent broadcaster.