Angus Hervey

Angus Hervey is a political economist and journalist and founder of Fix The News, a media company that seeks out and shares stories of progress from around the world. His weekly newsletter, read by 55,000 people from 195 countries, is widely regarded as one of the world's most authoritative and comprehensive sources of stories showing how humanity is actually meeting the big challenges of our time, covering rising living standards, human rights, clean energy, global health, scientific breakthroughs, conservation victories and more. His mission: to show that progress is not just possible but happening all around us.

Prior to Fix the News, Hervey co-founded Future Crunch, a platform for intelligent thinking about science and technology in the 21st century, and was the founding Community Manager of Random Hacks of Kindness Australia, a global initiative from Google, IBM, Microsoft, NASA and the World Bank to create open-source technology solutions to social challenges. He was also the first editorial manager for Global Policy, one of the world's leading international policy journals.

Hervey is a graduate of the University of Cape Town and holds an MSc in International Political Economy and both a PhD in Environmental Studies from the London School of Economics, where he was the Ralph Miliband Scholar.