Jeremy Heimans Mentor 2012....

Describe yourself briefly.

Jeremy has been building movements since he was a precocious little brat in his native Australia, running media campaigns and lobbying politicians from the age of 8 on issues like environmental degradation and nuclear proliferation. Since then, his voice has broken but those global problems persist. So, as a grown-up, Jeremy co-founded Avaaz.org, the world’s largest web movement, with almost four million members; GetUp.org, the Australian political movement with more members than all of Australia’s political parties combined and an advocacy group in the 2004 US presidential election that raised millions of dollars in small online donations to tell the stories of a group women whose loved ones were in Iraq.

Jeremy began his career with the strategy consultants McKinsey and Company. He was educated at Harvard University and the University of Sydney, and is a citizen of of Australia and the Netherlands.

The World e-Government Forum has named Jeremy and Purpose co-founder David Madden among the “Top 10 People Who Are Changing the World of the Internet and Politics”. His work been covered in publications like The New York Times and The Economist.