Demos Staff overview
Ally Paget
Junior Associate
Ally joined Demos as a Junior Associate in July 2012, working on the public services and welfare programme.
Jo Salter
Researcher
Jo is a Researcher at Demos, working on the Public Services and Welfare Programme.
Jonathan Todd
Associate
Jonathan is a Demos Associate, currently working on the economics of cities.
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.
Claudia Wood
Deputy Director
Claudia is Deputy Director of Demos. Her primary research interests are health and social care, public service markets and personalisation, ageing, disability and benefits reform.
Rohit Lekhi
Associate
Rohit Lekhi is a Demos Associate, working on a project assessing the potential of open data to revolutionise public services.
Mark Littler
Associate
Mark Littler is an associate specialising in the quantitative study of crime, religion and extremism.
John Lloyd
Currently a contributing editor to the Financial Times, John has been Labour editor, Industrial editor, East European Editor and Moscow Bureau chief at the newspaper.
Dom Longford
Associate Economist
Dom is an Associate Economist at Demos, working on Building Character and the Home Front project.
Hannah Lownsbrough
Hannah Lownsbrough became a Demos associate in the summer of 2007. Her expertise is in the field of community organisations, community-led approaches to regeneration and race issues.
Tony MacKay
Tony is Executive Director of the Incorporated Association of Registered Teachers of Victoria (IARTV) and Director of the Centre for Strategic Educational Thinking (CSET), Melbourne.
Phil Macnaghten
Phil Macnaghten, Senior Lecturer, teaches in the Sociology Department, at Lancaster University. From June 1st 2006 he will be Professor of Geography and Founding Director of IHRR, the Institute for Hazard and Risk Research, at Durham University.
Tony Manwaring
Tony Manwaring led disability charity Scope as CEO through four years of profound change and also has an academic perspective on leadership.
Mariana Mazzucato
Associate
Mariana Mazzucato is Professor of Economics and RM Phillips Chair in Science and Technology Policy, University of Sussex (Science Policy Research Unit).
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.
James Mole
Communications Intern
James joined Demos in June 2010 and works as a Media and Communications Intern.
Marley Morris
Alumni
Marley was a research intern at Demos, working on the Violence and Extremism programme.
Zaki Nahaboo
Research Intern
Zaki joined Demos in June 2010 and is a research intern on the Open Left project.
Lisa O'Dea
Research Intern
Lisa joined Demos in April 2012 as a research intern on the Public Services and Welfare Project.
Marius Ostrowski
Research Intern
Marius joined Demos in July 2012 as a research intern for the Progressive Conservatism project.
Jenny Ousbey
Alumni
Jenny was a Junior Associate, working on the Public Services and Welfare programme.
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.