Hugh Evans
Hugh Evans is an internationally renowned development advocate and humanitarian. Over the past decade, Hugh has built a movement of millions of people around the world working to end extreme poverty, and has received domestic and international accolades for his work in promoting youth advocacy and volunteerism.
Evans is currently the CEO of Global Citizen, an international advocacy organization he co-founded in 2008, committed to increasing the number and effectiveness of individuals taking action to end extreme poverty.
Throughout the pandemic, Evans has focused efforts on providing tests and treatments to vulnerable communities. In September 2021, Global Citizen Live, a global broadcast to unite the world to defend the planet and defeat poverty, secured over 60 million COVID-19 vaccines, 157 million trees, and over $1.1 billion committed to climate, famine, and COVID-19 response efforts. Global Citizen’s May 2021 campaign Vax Live, hosted by Selena Gomez and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, mobilized 26 million COVID-19 vaccine doses, and secured $302 million for medical tools.
In 2012, the Global Citizen Festival was launched, a free, ticketed event that requires fans to perform actions in exchange for admission. The Global Citizen Festival takes place on the Great Lawn in Central Park, where it annually coincides with the UN General Assembly. Since 2012, the festival has gone on to take place in London, Paris, Lagos, Los Angeles, Mumbai, Hamburg, Toronto, Berlin, and Johannesburg.
In 2006, Evans helped to run the Make Poverty History campaign in Australia, a concert with Bono and Pearl Jam that successfully helped to persuade the Australian government to double its committed foreign budget.
As a teenager, Evans co-founded Oaktree Foundation, Australia’s first youth-run aid organization. Oaktree Foundation focuses on creating education opportunities to countries in need across the Asia Pacific and African regions. Today, the organization is still run by people aged 16 to 26.
In 2021, Evans was an honoree at Town & Country’s Philanthropy Summit. In 2015, he was Billboard magazine’s Humanitarian of the Year. In 2012, Evans was featured on Forbes’s 30 Under 30. He was also given the GQ Man of the Year Award for Chivalry in 2014 and in the same year was named one of Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business.
Evans holds a Bachelor of Law from Monash University in Australia and a Master of Philosophy in International Relations from the University of Cambridge in England.
Hugh Evans is an internationally renowned development advocate and humanitarian. Over the past decade, Hugh has built a movement of millions of people around the world working to end extreme poverty, and has received domestic and international accolades for his work in promoting youth advocacy and volunteerism.
Evans is currently the CEO of Global Citizen, an international advocacy organization he co-founded in 2008, committed to increasing the number and effectiveness of individuals taking action to end extreme poverty.
Throughout the pandemic, Evans has focused efforts on providing tests and treatments to vulnerable communities. In September 2021, Global Citizen Live, a global broadcast to unite the world to defend the planet and defeat poverty, secured over 60 million COVID-19 vaccines, 157 million trees, and over $1.1 billion committed to climate, famine, and COVID-19 response efforts. Global Citizen’s May 2021 campaign Vax Live, hosted by Selena Gomez and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, mobilized 26 million COVID-19 vaccine doses, and secured $302 million for medical tools.
In 2012, the Global Citizen Festival was launched, a free, ticketed event that requires fans to perform actions in exchange for admission. The Global Citizen Festival takes place on the Great Lawn in Central Park, where it annually coincides with the UN General Assembly. Since 2012, the festival has gone on to take place in London, Paris, Lagos, Los Angeles, Mumbai, Hamburg, Toronto, Berlin, and Johannesburg.
In 2006, Evans helped to run the Make Poverty History campaign in Australia, a concert with Bono and Pearl Jam that successfully helped to persuade the Australian government to double its committed foreign budget.
As a teenager, Evans co-founded Oaktree Foundation, Australia’s first youth-run aid organization. Oaktree Foundation focuses on creating education opportunities to countries in need across the Asia Pacific and African regions. Today, the organization is still run by people aged 16 to 26.
In 2021, Evans was an honoree at Town & Country’s Philanthropy Summit. In 2015, he was Billboard magazine’s Humanitarian of the Year. In 2012, Evans was featured on Forbes’s 30 Under 30. He was also given the GQ Man of the Year Award for Chivalry in 2014 and in the same year was named one of Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business.
Evans holds a Bachelor of Law from Monash University in Australia and a Master of Philosophy in International Relations from the University of Cambridge in England.