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.
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.
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.
Julian le Grand
Demos Advisory Council
Julian le Grand is the Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Chairman of Health England.
David Marquand
Demos Advisory Council
David Marquand is the chair of the Demos Advisory Council, Visiting Fellow, department of politics, University of Oxford and Honorary Professor of Politics, University of Sheffield.
Ed Mayo
Demos Advisory Council
Ed Mayo is Chief Executive of Consumer Focus and Secretary General of Co-operatives UK.
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.
George Osborne
Demos Advisory Council
George Osborne is the Conservative MP for Tatton and Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Jenni Russell
Demos Advisory Council
Jenni Russell is a columnist for the Sunday Times and the Guardian.
Richard Sennett
Demos Advisory Council
Richard Sennett is a Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics.