Ann Pettifor was named in The Independent Newspaper's Good List, 1st September 2006.
The Good List
Advocacy International Director included in "The Good List" compiled by the UK's Independent newspaper. The Good List was compiled by Paddy Coulter of the Reuters Foundation, Caroline Diehl of the Media Trust, Fiona Fox of the Science Media Centre, Geoffrey Lean and Paul Vallely of The Independent and consists of 50 people who "share a commitment to improving lives and changing attitudes". The judges wrote: "Pettifor was the genius behind the Jubilee 2000 campaign that in 1999 pressurised the rich world to write off more than $100bn of the world's 42 poorest nations' debts. Using her background as a commercial lobbyist in the energy and retail sectors she built an anti-debt coalition of 90 organisations in 50 countries... Pettifor had the communication skills and tireless energy to transform a good idea into political reality. She created the first worldwide petition, with 24 million signatures and built a "big tent coalition" including Bill Clinton, Gerhard Schroeder, the Pope, the Dalai Lama, Mohammed Ali, Bono and thousands of international policy makers. She forced big changes".
