Rupert Younger

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Rupert Younger

Rupert Younger is the founder and director of Oxford University’s Centre for Corporate Reputation and co-founder and global managing partner of The Finsbury Group. He is the co-author of The Reputation Game and The Activist Manifesto. His work and views are regularly featured in news outlets including the BBC, CNN, the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Times of London. In addition, Rupert chaired The University of Oxford’s Socially Responsible Investment Committee of Council and is a Trustee of the international mine clearance and humanitarian charity The HALO Trust. Appointed by HM Queen Elizabeth II as her High Sheriff of Hampshire for 2013-14, Rupert is also a member of the Royal Company of Archers, the Queen’s Bodyguard in Scotland.

Activists of the world, unite!

What would Marx and Engels write today, 170 years after publication of The Communist Manifesto and in a time of more pronounced inequality than ever before? According to the authors of the new Activist Manifesto, Marx and Engels would today be concerned with the phenomenon of activism and with movements that are lending a voice to the unheard.

Rupert Younger, Frank Partnoy

Posted: 20 November 2018

The first edition of the Manifesto of the Communist Party was a 23-page pamphlet, first published in February 1848. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels updated it repeatedly, in various editions and languages, for decades.

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