Co-Founder, AAcountability

Aaron has been working in International Development for over two decades, transitioning from a career in tech to use his professional skills to make a difference to people living in poverty around the world, ultimately working in the policy and advocacy spheres to maximize impact.

Aaron’s early career was in microfinance, building organizations in the Global South to provide people living in poverty with access to financial services including savings, loans and insurance. From 2006-2009, he worked as Chief Operating/Technology Officer for MicroEnsure, with a special focus on both crop and health insurance.

Initially volunteering his spare time from 1998, he joined the RESULTS UK board in 2005 and in September 2009 joined the staff team as Executive Director. RESULTS uses policy advocacy, parliamentary advocacy, and public advocacy to create the public and political will to bring about the end of poverty. For eight years he also served on the Board of the Stop TB Partnership, a >$100m/y UN organization working to bring about the end of TB.

Currently, Aaron lives in Sweden and has co-founded a new organization, AAcountability, an initiative to use the power of Swedish Innovation and Technology to help in holding decisionmakers accountable for, and to deliver on, commitments made in the Sustainable Development Goals. Given the wealth of climate and environmental actors who are based in Sweden a substantial part of this work is climate-centric.