Susan George – acclaimed political scientist and TNI’s honorary president – has passed away at the age of 91
Reproduced from the Transnational Institute website. "Study the rich and powerful, not the poor and powerless". - Susan George, How the Other Half Dies, 1976 The Transnational Institute mourns the sad news of the passing of Susan George, on February 14, 2026. No one has done more to shape, energise, and inspire TNI over the decades – she has been our inspiration, our honorary leader, our intellectual soul, and our beloved friend. We will never see her like again. Susan Geo rge exerted a rare form of intellectual influence. She was an independent scholar-activist whose work exposed the horrors of the global system and who relentlessly campaigned for progressive and just alternatives. With her departure, the struggle for a just, democratic, and sustainable world will miss one of its most passionate and capable warriors. TNI joins the rest of the progressive world in mourning the passing of Susan George at the age of 91. She passed peacefully with her family around her. Susan...
