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David McNair is Executive Director of Global Strategy and ONE Data at the ONE Campaign. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For two decades he has worked on successful campaigns to reduce child mortality, unlock billions in funding for climate and sustainable development, reform the global financial architecture and crack down on grand corruption and tax evasion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace<\/a>, sits on the European Council on Foreign Relations Council<\/a>, is a founding executive board member of the Africa Europe Foundation,<\/a> and sits on the Board of CLEAR Global<\/a>, a nonprofit that helps people access vital information and be heard, whatever language they speak. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is a regular adviser commentator on development and geopolitics, holds a PhD in social geography from the Queen\u2019s University of Belfast and is author of \u2018Why Europe Needs Africa<\/a>\u2019 published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. <\/p>\n

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