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.
Sebastien Feve
Junior Associate
Sebastien was a Junior Associate at Demos, working on the Violence and Extremism programme and the Citizens programme.
Samuel Firth
Research Intern
Samuel joined Demos in December 2012 as a Research Intern with the Progressive Conservatism project.
Matthew Fraser
Research Intern
Matthew joined Demos in October 2010 and is working on the Family and Society programme.
Samantha Freitag
Research Intern
Samantha joined Demos in June 2011 as a research intern working with William Bradley on the Commission on Assisted Dying.
Carolina Gasparoli
Intern
Carolina joined Demos in February 2012 as a communications intern for the Centre for London.
Hannah Ghaus
Communications and Media Intern
Hannah joined Demos in June 2012 as a Communications and Media Intern.
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.