Alison (Ali) Goldsworthy
About Alison (Ali) Goldsworthy
For 20 years I made my name as a semi professional troublemaker. Now I'm making trouble suggesting people from different political leanings can and should work together. Some of the achievements that have helped get me here include * Co author Poles Apart (Penguin 2021). Describe by The Times' as a "great read" and "refreshing" it explains why we are divided and uses tested ideas to plot a route to to bring people together. Poles Apart is now a course I lecture with The Intellectual Forum, Jesus College, Cambridge *Co designing Stanford's first depolarization course as a Sloan Fellow at the GSB * Building the fastest growing movement for any NGO in the UK. Winning a campaign a week * Running the campaign to introduce opt out organ donation, changing the law and saving lives * Providing strategic advice and counsel to senior politicians, including on the negotiation of the UK’s first coalition government in 80 years. Co-founding an agency and becoming Deputy Chair of the Lib Dems * Management board member at a leading philanthropic trust, updating its strategic plan, overhauling board governance and overseeing the recruitment of new board members