Biographical Note
Stephen Hale
Deputy and Advocacy Campaigns director of Oxfam International and head of the Geneva office of
Oxfam International
Stephen Hale is Deputy and Advocacy Campaigns director of Oxfam International and head of the
Geneva office of Oxfam International. He was the director of Green Alliance, an independent charity and
green think tank working on environment policy in the United Kingdom, from 2006 to 2010, and a
trustee of Christian Aid, from 2007 to 2010.
He worked previously at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, as special adviser to
secretary of state Margaret Beckett, from 2003 to 2006, and as adviser to environment minister Michael
Meacher, from 2002 to 2003. Formerly, he was also active in Socialist Environment and Resources
Association, the environmental group affiliated to the Labour Party, serving as chair in 2001-2002 and as
vice-chair from 1999 to 2001.
He is the author of The new commandments of climate change strategy and The new politics of climate
change (2008) and is currently the third sector chair of the ministerial task force on climate change, the
environment and sustainable development.
He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire, in the 2011 New Year Honours, for services
to the environment.