Speakers

Arthur LAROK

Secretary General, Action Aid International

Arthur LAROK is Secretary General, ActionAid International, a global federation working in 46 countries to achieve social justice, gender equality and poverty eradication. He was previously Federation Development Director, ActionAid International for 4 years, Country Director of ActionAid Uganda for 6 years. He is also a member of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Civic Research Network (CRN). He holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Sociology from Makerere University Kampala, Uganda and master’s in governance and Development from the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex University - UK

He has coedited, with John De Coninck, a Book on Uganda’s Civil Society and authored several papers, including ‘Protecting the Tree or Saving the Forest’: A Political Analysis of the Legal Environment for NGO Operations in Uganda” (2009); ‘Uganda’s New Civic Activism: Beyond Egos and Logos’, ‘The conservative alliance against gender justice in Uganda’; ‘At Crossroads? The Youth, Politics of Interest Groups and influencing National Policy Processes in Uganda’; ‘Modified activism after Ethiopia’s New Dawn’.