Demos Staff overview
Beatrice Karol Burks
Press and Communications Officer
Bea is the Press and Communications Officer at Demos. She works with press and media on the communications desk.
Celia Hannon
Head of the Citizenship Programme
Celia is Head of the Citizenship Programme at Demos. Her research interests include gender, childhood, new media and public space.
Charlie Edwards
Head of the Security Programme
Charlie is Head of the Security Programme at Demos. He researches around national security, resilience, defence and intelligence.
Claire Coulier
Events Manager
Claire is Events Manager at Demos and works on developing and managing Demos' programme of events.
Dan Leighton
Researcher
Daniel Leighton is a researcher on the Civic Republicanism project. He has particular interests in exploring the application of republican political philosophy to public policy, democratic reform and the workplace.
Jamie Bartlett
Head of the Independence Programme
Jamie is Senior Researcher at Demos. His primary research interests lie in international development, public services and Islam.
Jen Lexmond
Researcher and Intern Coordinator
Jen is a Researcher and Intern Coordinator at Demos. Her research interests include modern liberalism, behavioural economics, and gender.
Jonathan Birdwell
Researcher
Jonathan is Researcher at Demos. His primary research interests include counter terrorism, theories of democracy and civic regeneration.
Jonty Olliff-Cooper
Senior Researcher
Jonty is a Senior Researcher and acting head of the Progressive Conservatism Project.
Alessandra Buonfino
Alessandra's primary interests are in the areas of belonging, migration and emotions.
Alex Evans
Alex Evans is a senior non-resident fellow at New York University’s Center on International Cooperation
Anwar Akhtar
Anwar will work with DEMOS on issues including the creative economy and the creative sector and the 2012 games and also issues around cultural identity and leadership within both British Muslim communities and internationally.
Catherine Fieschi
Catherine Fieschi is the Director of Counterpoint, the British Council's think-tank and a visiting scholar at St Antony's College, Oxford. She is interested in how citizens, institutions and organisations create new forms of social and political resilience in the face of change.
Chris Yapp
Chris has been in the IT Industry since 1980 at Honeywell, ICL and most recently Hewlett Packard.
Christian Barnett
Christian is Executive director of strategic planning for Global Client partners at BrandBuzz, New York
Claudia Wood
Associate
Claudia joins Demos to bring her expertise and experience to the Capabilities Programme.
Danny Chesterman
Danny is a consultant specialising in leadership development and whole system change in public service.
Ed Smith
Trustee
Ed is the Chairman of the World Wildlife Fund in the UK and former Global Assurance COO at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
George Furguson
Trustee
George is Chairman of Bristol-based Acanthus Ferguson Mann Architects, Past President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (2003-2005) and a founder and Director of the Academy of Urbanism.
Neil Sherlock
Trustee
Neil Sherlock is the partner in charge of public and regulatory affairs at KPMG.
Nick Claydon
Trustee
Nick is a partner at corporate communication agency, Brunswick, with over fifteen years experience advising clients on financial, corporate and critical media issues.
Penny Egan
Trustee
Penny Egan is Executive Director of the US-UK Fulbright Commission and former Director of the RSA.
Dom Potter
Dom works on the Building Communities for the Future project and the project looking at violent and non-violent radical Islamist mobilisation in Europe at Demos.
Molly Webb
Molly Webb worked as a Demos researcher on science, technology and innovation from January 2005 - August 2007.
Phillip Blond
Phillip was formerly Director of the Progressive Conservatism Project at Demos. His interests include asset-based welfare and financial markets, localisation and communitarianism.
Rachel Briggs
Rachel Briggs is part-time Director of Hostage UK, and a researcher with posts at RUSI, iCoCo and UCL. She specialises in radicalisation, preventing violent extremism, community tensions, community cohesion and human security.
Sarah Gillinson
Sarah joined Demos as a researcher in March 2004 and works on public service reform, concentrating on learning and disability policy.
Celia Hannon
Head of the Citizenship Programme
Celia is Head of the Citizenship Programme at Demos. Her research interests include gender, childhood, new media and public space.
Charlie Edwards
Head of the Security Programme
Charlie is Head of the Security Programme at Demos. He researches around national security, resilience, defence and intelligence.
Jamie Bartlett
Head of the Independence Programme
Jamie is Senior Researcher at Demos. His primary research interests lie in international development, public services and Islam.
Julia Margo
Director of Research
Julia is Director of Research at Demos. Her research interests include social mobility, wellbeing and character, education policy and anti-social behaviour.
Paul Johnson
Chief Economics Adviser
Paul is a Chief Economics Adviser at Demos, as well as Senior Associate at Frontier Economics and Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. He has worked for 20 years on the economics of public policy working particularly on welfare reform, pensions, inequality, education, climate change and taxation.
Peter Bradwell
Researcher
Peter is a researcher at Demos. He is interested in the way information and knowledge is shared as well as digital identity, online culture, copyright and intellectual property.
Phillip Blond
Phillip was formerly Director of the Progressive Conservatism Project at Demos. His interests include asset-based welfare and financial markets, localisation and communitarianism.
Richard Reeves
Director
Richard is Demos' Director. His interests include trends in British politics; the economics and politics of wellbeing; liberal political philosophy; and the future of the workplace.
Samuel Jones
Samuel is a researcher at Demos. His interests include the arts, museums and galleries and creativity.
Sonia Sodha
Head of the Capabilities Programme
Sonia is Head of the Capabilities Programme. Her interests include children and young people's wellbeing, education, asset-based welfare and wealth inequality.
Danny Alexander
Demos Advisory Council
Danny Alexander is the Liberal Democrat MP for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey
David Laws
Demos Advisory Council
David Laws is the MP for Yeovil and Liberal Democrat Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families.
David Marquand
Demos Advisory Council
David Marquand is the chair of the Demos Advisory Council, Visiting Fellow, department of politics, University of Oxford and Honorary Professor of Politics, University of Sheffield.
David Willetts
Demos Advisory Council
David Willets is the MP for Havant and Conservative Shadow Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills.
Diane Coyle
Demos Advisory Council
Director of Enlightenment Economics, BBC Trustee and visiting professor at the University of Manchester
Geoff Mulgan
Demos Advisory Council
Geoff Mulgan is Director of The Young Foundation and Founding Director of Demos.