Demos Staff overview
Jonty Olliff-Cooper
Senior Researcher
- Telephone
- +44 (0)7916 271044
- jonty.olliff-cooper@demos.co.uk
Jonty is a Senior Researcher and head of the Progressive Conservatism Project.
Jonty leads the Progressive Conservatism Project at Demos. Jonty’s work focuses on community, childhood, welfare reform and public service innovation.
Before joining Demos, Jonty was an adviser in the Conservative Party's Policy Unit, where he led on innovation policy, family and public service reform issues.
Jonty began his career in the private sector as a strategy consultant at the Boston Consulting Group. Since leaving consulting he has spent a short spell at the Pan-African Strategy team of the Department for International Development; and most recently in teaching. Jonty holds a degree in modern history from the University of Oxford, and an M.Phil in cultural history from Cambridge University. Outside Demos, he is part of Bright Blue, a new group which aims to spread progressive conservative ideas to an audience beyond Westminster, and works with a network that connects disadvantaged teenagers to young professionals willing to offer careers advice.
- Authors
- Jonty Olliff-Cooper
- Publication Date
- 2009-06-29
- Publication Type
- Report
The first of the Progressive Conservatism Project's 'Pocket Policy' reports.
- Authors
- Jonty Olliff-Cooper, Max Wind-Cowie, Jamie Bartlett
- Publication Date
- 2009-09-22
- Publication Type
- Pamphlet
As part of Demos' Progressive Coservatism project, Leading from the Front argues that public sector reform must empower frontline staff to create empowered citizens and improved public service provision.
The Progressive Conservatism Project
Jonty Olliff-Cooper, Max Wind-Cowie, Andrea Djonovic, Georgia BrownDemos has launched a major new project to explore progressive conservative thinking and policy.
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Recapitalising the Poor
Max Wind-Cowie, Jonty Olliff-CooperThis project looks at ways of using conservative theory and ideology to deliver progressive aims in the context of poverty in the UK.
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On Your Side
Jonty Olliff-Cooper, Max Wind-CowieThe Progressive Conservatism Project will set out a new, radical agenda for how older people can be better supported by the state and each other in a time of shrinking budgets, by creating a new facilitator services to unscramble the complex web of state and charitable help already on offer.
MoreProgressive taxes vs progressive policies
Jonty Olliff-Cooper asks whether increasing tax revenues is more important than who pays it.
Daved and Confused
Jonty Olliff-Cooper writes on how choice means nothing if you don't know how to exercise it.
A Progressive Parliament
Max Wind-Cowie discusses the rising prevalence of progressive ideals amongst Conservative MPs.
Education is a high-stakes game
Max Wind-Cowie argues that the importance of education means we must implement choice to ensure quality.
Something for nothing
Jonty Olliff-Cooper writes that unlocking data can also mean unlocking innovation.
Tory Story
12/08/09 Jonty Olliff-Cooper asks just how progressive George Osborne'...
We need more politicians, not fewer
14/07/09 There are not too many politicians, only too many Civil Servants, says Jonty Olliff...
A Case for School Choice
In all the excitement over the Gurkahs and MPs’ expenses this week, it was easy...