User Profile for Jeremy Heimans (Jeremy Heimans)

Bio: Jeremy Heimans is a founding director of Purpose Campaigns – an international online strategy and communications firm whose clients have included the US and Australian labor movements and a major European presidential candidate.

Over the past few years, he has worked at the intersection of politics, media and technology in the United States, Australia and Europe. In 2004, Jeremy helped start an independent campaign group that ran a series of television commercials targeting the Bush foreign policy in 12 battleground states, in collaboration with Gen. Wesley Clark. The following year he co-founded, with David Madden, GetUp.org.au, an online political movement that today has more members than all Australia’s political parties combined. In 2007, he co-founded Avaaz.org, a new global campaign organization formed in partnership with MoveOn.org.

Jeremy has also worked for the international strategic consulting firm McKinsey & Company. He was educated at Harvard University and the University of Sydney, and now lives in New York. In 2006, Heimans was, with Madden, named one of the “Top 10 people changing the world of internet and politics” by the World E-Government Forum.

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