Charlie Hertzog Young

CHARLIE HERTZOG YOUNG is a researcher, writer and award-winning activist. A proudly mad bipolar double amputee, he has worked for the New Economics Foundation, the Royal Society of Arts, the Good Law Project, the Four Day Week Campaign and the Centre for Progressive Change, as well as the UK Labour Party under three consecutive leaders. Charlie has spoken at the LSE, the UN and the World Economic Forum. He has been an activist and organiser since his teens. He has founded two organisations and was involved in staging a publicised walk-out of Gregory Mankiw's economics lectures, the Harvard professor who was George Bush's senior economic advisor. As well as Harvard, he has studied at SOAS and Schumacher College and has written for The Ecologist, The Independent, Novara Media, Open Democracy and The Guardian.