Demos Staff overview
Jamie Bartlett
Head of the Violence and Extremism Programme
Jamie is the Head of the Violence and Extremism Programme and the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media. His primary research interests are: terrorism, extremism and social media analysis, including the use of social media by political movements and law enforcement agencies.
Jonathan Birdwell
Head of the Citizens Programme
Jonathan is Head of the Citizens Programme at Demos. His research expertise lies in counter-terrorism, public behaviour and drugs policy. He is also interested in theories of democracy and civic regeneration.
Josephine Brady
Events Officer and Operations Manager
Josephine is the Events Officer and Operations Manager at Demos.
Sophie Duder
Head of External Affairs
Sophie is Demos' Head of External Affairs and runs our partnership and events programmes.
Michelle Harrison
Michelle is a director of Henley Centre where she heads up the public sector consultancy practice.
Richard Harrison
Richard Harrison is a former senior civil servant, now working as a consultant on a number of educational issues, including innovation in school leadership and skill formation.
Robert Hewison
Robert Hewison is a critic and cultural historian who has published widely on aspects of 19th and 20th century British culture.
Paul Hildreth
Centre for London
Paul is an expert in development and local regeneration working at The Centre for London at Demos.
John Holden
John Holden is a visiting Professor at City University. He was previously Demos' Head of Culture until Sept 2008.
Melanie Howard
Professor Melanie Howard co-founded the Future Foundation, a consumer think-tank, in 1996 with Michael Willmott.
Samuel Jones
Associate
Samuel is an Associate of Demos. His interests include the arts, museums and galleries, and creativity.
Eric Kaufmann
Associate
Eric Kaufmann is Professor of Politics at Birkbeck College, University of London.
Justin Kerr-Stevens
Justin has been a senior advisor to the UK and Australian Governments. A strategic communications specialist he is currently leading on engagement communications for the Department of Health.
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.
Rutger Birnie
Research Intern
Rutger joined Demos in February 2013 as a Research Intern with the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media.
Leah Brumer
Research Intern
Leah joined Demos in February 2013 as a Research Intern with the Citizens Programme.
Jonathan Senior
Communications and Media Intern
Jonathan joined Demos in January 2013 as the Communications Intern.
Sophie McKay
Media and Communications Intern
Sophie joined Demos in October 2010 as a Media & Communications Intern.
Rosie McKearney
Party Conference Events Assistant
Rosie helps Demos organise Party Conference events.
Mavis McKenzie Cecil
Communications and Media Intern
Mavis joined Demos in May 2012 as a Communications and Media intern.
Ailsa McLagan
Events and Partnerships Intern
Ailsa joined Demos in December 2012 as an Events and Partnership intern.
Ellen McLagan
Research Intern
Ellen joined Demos in October 2010 as a research intern on the Violence and Extremism project.
Emily Millane
Research Intern
Emily joined Demos in September 2010 as a Research Intern and is working on the Progressive Conservatism Project.
Jamie Bartlett
Head of the Violence and Extremism Programme
Jamie is the Head of the Violence and Extremism Programme and the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media. His primary research interests are: terrorism, extremism and social media analysis, including the use of social media by political movements and law enforcement agencies.
Samuel Jones
Associate
Samuel is an Associate of Demos. His interests include the arts, museums and galleries, and creativity.
Julia Margo
Alumni
Julia was Deputy Director at Demos. Her expertise is in social mobility, wellbeing and capabilities, education policy and anti-social behaviour.
Richard Reeves
Director
Richard is a former Director of Demos. His interests include trends in British politics; the economics and politics of wellbeing; liberal political philosophy; and the future of the workplace.
Max Wind-Cowie
Head of the Progressive Conservatism Project
Max Wind-Cowie runs the Progressive Conservatism Project at Demos, which identifies conservative values and policies that have progressive ends.
Richard Thaler
Demos Advisory Council
Richard Thaler is Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics, University of Chicago.
Stuart White
Demos Advisory Council
Stuart White is a Fellow in Politics and Director of the Public Policy Unit, University of Oxford
David Willetts
Demos Advisory Council
David Willets is the MP for Havant and Minister of State for Universities and Science.
Jonathan Wolff
Demos Advisory Council
Jonathan Wolff is a Professor of Philosophy at University College London.