Curriculum Vitae – Ethan Earle

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ETHAN STRICKER EARLE

Date of Birth: 19 April 1982 | Mobile: +33 6 67 51 39 39
Email: earle.ethan@gmail.com | WhatsApp: +1 917 601 6331

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Experienced professional in the small world of international politics dedicated to system change. Has worked regularly with members of congresses and parliaments, UN officials, trade unionists, activists, and civil society actors across the world. Organizer of campaigns and events of all shapes and sizes, including large-scale conferences and high-level delegations. Excellent communicator and writer, accomplished researcher and director of complex research projects. Political analyst with expertise across the policy spectrum. Dynamic, diplomatic, and a decent human being.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Writing, editing, and leading research projects related to political analysis and strategy.
Organizing, leading, and participating in all types of public events and private meetings.
Managing five- and six-figure budgets deftly and in accordance with federal oversight.
Providing expert advice that responds with sensitivity to organizational and political considerations.
Speaking and writing fluent Spanish, professional French, and basic German.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Political Consultant | Paris, France | 2019 – present

Adjunct Professor, French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs (IRIS) | February 2020 – present
Teaches a course called “Understanding the World” in a post-graduate degree program offered by one of France’s most prestigious think tanks for international politics.

Project Director, A Season in Hell | June 2019 – present
Oversees all aspects of “A Season in Hell: Burning issues in French politics”, a political analysis series of the Brussels office of the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, a political foundation based in Germany and represented abroad by its 26 regional offices. This series was coupled with an internal report to RLS to provide an overview of the French political landscape in the current conjuncture, delivered in December 2019.

Co-Editor, Beyond NAFTA 2.0: Toward a Progressive Trade Agenda for People and Planet | July 2019
Co-editor of a major publication providing a constructive, progressive critique of NAFTA. This report was a collective initiative of the Institute for Policy Studies, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, and has been coupled with a series of civil society gatherings to build related campaigns for trade justice.

Co-Author, Toward a Progressive Trade Politics in the EU | May 2019
Co-author of a major report commissioned by the GUE/NGL EU Parliamentary group to provide an overview of existing trade justice movements and a political roadmap for the 2019-2024 EU Parliamentary mandate.

Political Advisor, Re-thinking Cross-Border Organizing | February 2019 – present
Provides political counsel and organizing support to a multi-tiered program designed to develop the labor organizing work of the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung at an international level. This program has included multiple events, interstitial network building support, and the development of a series of educational webinars in which thousands of organizers from dozens of countries have participated.

Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung |New York, USA | 2012 – 2019
Program Manager, United Nations and North America | September 2017 – February 2019
Senior Project Manager, United Nations and North America | August 2014 – August 2017
Project Manager, North America | August 2012 – July 2014

Senior staff person. Received two promotions, becoming responsible for a broad suite of political content and programming related to the UN and North America. Tasked with multiple duties related to research, advocacy, and political strategy, in collaboration with civil society and government actors. Regularly managed complex events and research projects, organize high-level delegations and broad-ranging coalitions, and oversaw largescale budgets and teams of contributors.

Select recent achievements include:

Proposing, negotiating the participation of, and then bringing to the March 2018 US Congressional Progressive Caucus Strategy Summit a multi-faceted delegation with Members of Parliament from UK Labour, Syriza, Podemos and Die Linke, to share ideas with dozens of Members of US Congress.
Co-leading a complex research collaborative, together with the UN Research Institute for Social Development, and editing a report on Just Transition to be released at upcoming UN Climate conference.
Organizing in June 2017 a major weekend retreat of sixty political actors from across North America and Europe to develop “Strategies Against the Far Right;” and as one result editing the book “The Far Right in Government: Six Case Studies from Europe,” published in July 2018.

Core member of international non-profit development organization that provides technical assistance and non-extractive finance to worker-owned businesses, or cooperatives. Received two promotions, becoming the U.S. director in charge of fund management and related fiduciary responsibilities, staff management and professional development, multi-stakeholder network expansion, and strategic direction.

Select achievements include:

Proposing and leading the creation of a U.S. office, which has since successfully led a large-scale lobbying effort to receive funding from the New York City Council, and has, among other things, supported the development of one of this country’s only unionized worker cooperatives.
Building and establishing a diverse multi-stakeholder network that includes community organizations, workers, funders, academics, politicians, and business specialists.
Leading the growth of the organization from having a low six-figure to a mid-seven-figure budget, with managerial oversight growing to as many as ten people directly.

OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Democratic Socialists of America | New York, USA
Co-Chair of International Committee | October 2018 – present
Leading the development of DSA’s international political work, including by creating and overseeing regional and thematic working groups, overseeing the development and dissemination of political education materials, drafting outward facing political statements, and managing relationships with left parties around the world.

Party of the European Left | Brussels, Belgium
Member of North American Working Group | October 2017 – present
Providing analysis, in the form of memos, speeches and internal discussions, on the topic of US foreign policy and its implications for international politics and particularly the European left.

The Working World | New York, USA
Member of Board of Directors | January 2015 – present
Chairman of Board of Directors | January 2015 – January 2019
Overseeing organizational operations, complying with fiduciary and regulatory oversight, and providing advice relating to staff, management, strategic planning, and organizational growth.

Working USA: The Journal of Labor & Society | New York, USA
Member of Editorial Board | September 2013 – present
Assisting with editorial and publishing decisions, and contributing pieces as needed.

SELECT RECENT PUBLICATIONS

“Between NAFTA 2.0: toward a progressive trade agenda for people and planet,” openDemocracy, 22 November 2019.
“9 Reasons Why You Should Care About Trade,” The Nation Magazine, 17 June 2019.
“The Spill on the Río Sonora,” Jacobin Magazine, 13 September 2017.
“Trump Is Trying to Make NAFTA Even Worse,” In These Times Magazine, 28 June 2017.
“The Global Protest Wave of 2011-12,” Contributing Editor, “Rosa Remix,” RLS-NYC, August 2016.

EDUCATION

Latin American School of Social Sciences (FLACSO) | Buenos Aires, Argentina
M.A. in International Relations | January 2009 – June 2012
Master’s thesis: “El papel histórico de Estados Unidos en Bolivia y la ruptura diplomática de 2008,” approved with distinction (2012) and published by Editorial Académica Española (2018).

University of North Carolina | Chapel Hill, USA
B.A. in Political Science | August 2000 – May 2004