Paul Twivy

Paul is a strategic thinker, professional storyteller, a social activist, entrepreneur and writer, with a career spanning 45 years. He co-founded two seminal communications agencies and ran some of the most successful advertising agencies in Europe. He was Marketing Advisor to the BBC, helping it to transition into the digital age. He has worked with 3 UK Prime Ministers on tackling some of society’s toughest problems, with a focus on disadvantaged communities,  and co-founded a number of social enterprises including The Big Lunch, Pilotlight, TimeBank, Change the World for a Fiver and Your Square Mile.  

Paul wrote and performed comedy for several years with Ian Hislop and Chris Tarrant. In 2004, he researched, collated and edited the breakthrough environmental book “Change the World for a Fiver” which sold 1.2 million copies worldwide and was translated into several languages. In 2015, BiteBack published his book - “Be Your Own Politician:  Why it’s time for a new kind of politics” -  based on his social activism . His first novel – “Hallowed Ground: The Mystery of the African Fairy Circles” – was published in October 2019 and was runner-up in the People’s Book Prize. He has written a feature film and stage play - Foreign Bodies - about Waldemar Haffkine, a remarkable man who saved mankind from cholera and the plague. The film is being directed by Shekhar Kapur and has 4 producers attached.

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