I’m Mehran Khalili. I help movements turn ideas into action, host public conversations on politics and strategy, and take black-and-white photographs. I’m based in Athens, Greece.
For the past 14 years, I’ve advised a range of organisations — from citizen media startups to global giants like the UNDP and WWF — on how to increase their impact. I co-founded the political consultancy Clearcase, and I’m an adviser to the Democracy In Europe Movement (DiEM25). I’ve also worked as a communications adviser to global tech companies, and was a management consultant with Andersen.
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Update 17/10/25: If you got this far, here are some thoughts on why the far right is rising... and how we could learn from it.