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.
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.
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.
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.
Phil Spires
Phil Spires is founder of Spiral a London based social and consumer insight agency. He specialises in qualitative & ethnographic research plus strategy development.
Rebecca Willis
Rebecca Willis is an independent researcher and Vice-Chair of the UK Sustainable Development Commission. Her work focuses on environmental politics and policymaking at both a national and regional level.
Rens van Tilburg
Senior Advisor to the Dutch Advisory Council on Science and Technology
Rens van Tilburg is working as a senior advisor to the Dutch Advisory Council on Science and Technology (www.awt.nl).
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.
Rohit Lekhi
Associate
Rohit Lekhi is a Demos Associate, working on a project assessing the potential of open data to revolutionise public services.
Samuel Jones
Associate
Samuel is an Associate of Demos. His interests include the arts, museums and galleries, and creativity.
Shamit Saggar
Shamit Saggar is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Sussex and the Non-executive Chairman of the Board of the Legal Complaints Service of the Law Society of England & Wales.
Shelagh Wright
Shelagh Wright is a Demos Associate, she has worked extensively with the public, charitable and private sectors on creativity, learning and innovation agendas
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.
Paris Gourtsoyannis
Media and Communications Intern
Paris joined Demos in May 2011 as a Media and Communications Intern.
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.
Phillida Cheetham
Alumni
Phillida was a Junior Associate at Demos, working on the Family and Society programme and the Public Services and Welfare programme.
Poonam Pattni
Research Intern
Poonam joined Demos in January 2011 as a research intern on the Family and Society programme.
Rachel Briggs
Rachel is Research and Policy Director, Security and Integration at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. Between 2003 - 2008 she worked as Head of International Strategy and Head of the Identity Programme at Demos.
Ravi Shankar Jayaram
Research Intern
Ravi joined Demos in January 2011 as a research intern 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.
Julia Margo
Alumni
Julia was Deputy Director at Demos. Her expertise is in social mobility, wellbeing and capabilities, education policy and anti-social behaviour.
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 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.
Samuel Jones
Associate
Samuel is an Associate of Demos. His interests include the arts, museums and galleries, and creativity.
Robert Cooper
Advisory Board Member
Robert Cooper is an adviser for High Representative Catherine Ashton with the European External Action Service.
Sir David Omand
Demos Advisory Council
Sir David Omand is visiting Professor in the War Studies Department, King’s College, and former Permanent Secretary of the Home Office.
Stuart White
Demos Advisory Council
Stuart White is a Fellow in Politics and Director of the Public Policy Unit, University of Oxford
Vince Cable
Demos Advisory Council
Vince Cable is the Lib Dem MP for Twickenham and Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills.
