Paul Skidmore
Demos Associate
Paul Skidmore is currently a McConnell Fellow in the MPA programme at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. From 2002-2005 he was a senior researcher at Demos specialising in governance and civic renewal. He blogs at www.divideddemocracy.com
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Paul Skidmore is currently a McConnell Fellow and MPA candidate at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
He first joined Demos in January 2002. In nearly four years as a Researcher and then Senior Researcher he was involved in 17 research projects and authored more than half-a-dozen publications on public policy, civic participation and social change. He was also a regular commentator in the print and broacast media and spoke at seminars and conferences in the UK and overseas.
He also worked part-time as a political adviser and speechwriter to David Lammy MP. He left Demos in November 2005 on a six month secondment as a Strategy Advisor at the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, where he worked for David Miliband MP on a review of the department's climate change policy and on the Local Government White Paper.
After David Miliband's appointment as Environment Secretary in summer 2006, he helped to lead a review of Defra's organisational strategy. Paul has a first class degree in government and a masters in European politics and policy from the University of Manchester.
He blogs at www.divideddemocracy.com.