Andy Hull

Andy leads Kivu International’s work on the Building Community Engagement in Papua New Guinea programme. That involves supporting civil society organisations in PNG to forge coalitions that influence policy on economic empowerment and on sorcery accusation related violence. He is also responsible for developing Kivu’s business in The Pacific. Previously at Kivu, Andy has helped the Zambian government develop an affordable credit scheme for emergent farmers and has supported a review of civil society’s influence on policy in Rwanda.

Before joining Kivu, Andy’s work spanned politics, policy and practice in the UK. Nationally, he ran a human rights charity during the Covid-19 pandemic and, before that, led influential programmes of research on housing and on national security at think tank IPPR. Regionally, he worked on community engagement and counter terrorism with the Metropolitan Police. Locally, he was an elected politician responsible for the £1bn finances of the London Borough of Islington throughout a decade of central government austerity.

In the UK, Andy has undertaken consultancy work for the Ministry of Justice, the Royal Society for the Arts, the New Economics Foundation, the Living Wage Foundation, Power to Change and the National Preparedness Commission. He has also been engaged as a consultant by, among others, the now Chancellor of the Exchequer, two Secretaries of State and the Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister.

In Morocco, where Andy now lives, he has performed consultancy for the Royal Institute of Strategic Studies, influencing the country’s relationship with the UK after Brexit.