Kristian Weise is Secretary General of Oxfam IBIS, the Danish affiliate of the international NGO, Oxfam.
Before joining Oxfam, he was Director of Cevea, a think tank which specializes in social and economic analyses. The think tank focuses in particular on the challenges of inequality.
He has previously been Chief of Staff for the Danish Social Democrats in the European Parliament and political advisor to former prime minister, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and for the Danish Confederation of Trade Unions (LO).
He is an expert on global inequality, social protection policies, international trade and financial regulations and is widely used as an expert on inequality in Danish media as well as public fora.
He holds an MSc. in political sociology from the London School of Economics and a BSc. in economics and philosophy from Copenhagen Business School.
He looks forward to joining the Expert Working Group on Global Public Investment and particularly to advance the question of how public investment in social protection policies can add value to societies and improve social progress.