Roger Hallam

The UK's Number 1 Climate Campaigner

Roger Hallam is one of the world's top campaigners, famous for being a founder of Extinction Rebellion, Insulate Britain, and Just Stop Oil—the most prominent social movements of recent years in the UK. He has worked as an advisor around the Western world, facilitating the creation of significant climate campaigns in Italy, Germany, and Sweden. Roger has been committed to social justice for decades - dropping out of LSE in his 20s to join the peace movement. Afterwards, he worked as an organic farmer in Wales for 30 years before unprecedented rains destroyed £100,000 worth of his crops. 

Having experienced climate breakdown first-hand, Roger recognised the need for societal change and became a researcher at King's College London. There, he produced award-winning research on the psychology of mobilisation and the design of civil disobedience. In 2018, he wrote the Tate Modern book of the month, Common Sense for The 21st Century - an introduction manual to Extinction Rebellion. In 2023, the New Statesman rated him as the 34th most influential progressive person in the UK—the highest position of any environmentalist apart from David Attenborough. In 2024, he wrote the introduction to A Green Day: Embracing Climate Action (Hachette India). Roger’s social accounts have a growing audience of over 40k followers and an engaged email list audience of 4k. His campaigns and initiatives are routinely amplified by organisations and individuals like Extinction Rebellion and Chris Hedges with audiences in the hundreds of thousands each.

In 2024, a British judge had Roger dragged out of court by police for refusing to break his oath to tell the "whole truth" to the jury in a climate protest trial. For his efforts to speak publicly about the greatest crisis in human history, he was given a five-year prison sentence in July 2024—the longest sentence for civil disobedience in the UK since the Second World War. His prison sentence was front page news in The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Guardian and The Daily Mail. He has written for a broad political spectrum, from the Guardian to The Daily Mail. On TV, he has appeared on BBC HardTalk GB News with Nigel Farage and has starred in several films about his civil disobedience, including The Troublemaker and Conscientious Protectors. 

Roger continues to work from his prison cell. You can read his work at rogerhallam.com