Max Lawson is Head of Inequality Policy at Oxfam International. He has worked for OI since 2016. He leads all of Oxfam’s policy on inequality. This includes our work on tax, aid, debt, labour rights, health, education, social protection and the capture of politics by elites. He also has an active interest in the relationship between inequality and other areas of Oxfam’s work, including agricultural livelihoods, climate change and our humanitarian work.

Max worked for Oxfam GB from 2002 to 2016, firstly in policy support to country programmes, and then in advocacy and campaigns where he was Head of Global Campaigns and Policy. As part of his country support he has visited and worked with over 25 country programmes across the world. He has experience in organisational development, inequality, tax, labour rights, structural adjustment, debt, aid quantity and quality, macro-economics, governance, agriculture policy, social protection, HIV and AIDS, health, education and water.

In his work for campaigns and advocacy, he has specialised in the World Bank and IMF (International Monetary Fund), and also on the G8, G20 and UN.