Dignity Meets Tom Wein

Director at IDinsight, Kenya Tom holds a Master’s degree in Communication for Development from Malmö University in Sweden, and an undergraduate degree in War Studies from King’s College, London. He is a director at IDinsight, based in Nairobi, Kenya. There he leads research in advocacy, and dignity and respect in international development. Before joining IDinsight, he founded the Dignity Project, a campaign for more respectful international development. With The Dignity Project, he gave evidence to the UK Parliament, and wrote several academic papers; a book on dignity and organisations is forthcoming. He previously led Raising Voices’ work to prevent violence against children in schools in Uganda. Before that, he worked with the Busara Center for Behavioral Economics, where he built the CREME research agenda on culture, research ethics and methods, and led work on activism, civil society and edutainment. Dignity's Negin Zamani spoke with Tom Wein