Xanthe Hall has worked as the nuclear disarmament campaigner at IPPNW Germany for over 18 years and is based at their office in Berlin, Germany. In the early eighties, she was a member of the West Midlands CND executive committee responsible for Non-violent Direct Action and worked as a staff member for CND before leaving for West Berlin in 1985. Xanthe co-founded the Abolition 2000 Global Network for the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons in 1995. She also helped found the German Abolition national network, Traegerkreis "Atomwaffen abschaffen". Xanthe is a member of the Abolition 2000 Global Council. She is European Coordinator of the Parliamentarians for Non-Proliferation and Nuclear Disarmament (PNND) and a 2020 Vision Campaigner for Mayors for Peace in Germany. Xanthe manages the content of the German Mayors for Peace homepage (www.mayorsforpeace.de) and helps to organise the annual meetings for the German mayors. She provides groups who wish their mayor to join the organisation with the relevant materials, as well as advising mayors on how to become active.