10 May 2024

Jill McArdle

Jill joined Beyond Fossil Fuels in April 2024 as the International Corporate Campaigner, focusing on the role of non-energy corporate actors in achieving a fossil-free renewables-based power system. Prior to joining BFF, Jill spent four and a half years at Friends of the Earth Europe where she campaigned on the EU’s major supply chain law, the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive. She also worked with a global coalition on a UN treaty to regulate transnational corporations, and contributed to a campaign to stop LNG projects in northern Mozambique.

Before this Jill worked in Brussels advocating for the EU’s research agenda to prioritise societal benefit, particularly in access to medicines, over corporate interests. She also worked for a year at the European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad). Jill holds a PhD in ethics and theories of global justice from the University of Dublin. She is Irish, but has been living in Brussels, Belgium, since 2016.

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