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.
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.
Beth Hacche
Research Intern
Beth joined Demos as a research intern on The Future of Work project in April 2011.
Simon Hampson
Research Assistant
Simon is a Research Assistant at Demos, working on the Security programme. His research interests include counter-terrorism, climate security, conceptions of liberalism and the value of autonomy.
Kat Hanna
Centre for London Intern
Kat joined the Centre for London in February 2012 as research intern.
Ed Hickey
Communications and Media Intern
Ed joined Demos in October 2012 as a Communications Intern with the Centre for London.
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.
Danny Alexander
Demos Advisory Council
Danny Alexander is the Liberal Democrat MP for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey and Chief Secretary to the Treasury.
Richard Best
Demos Advisory Council
Baron Best is a member of the House of Lords, and former Director of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Vince Cable
Demos Advisory Council
Vince Cable is the Lib Dem MP for Twickenham and Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills.
Robert Cooper
Advisory Board Member
Robert Cooper is an adviser for High Representative Catherine Ashton with the European External Action Service.
Diane Coyle
Demos Advisory Council
Director of Enlightenment Economics, BBC Trustee and visiting professor at the University of Manchester
Lynsey Hanley
Demos Advisory Council
Lynsey Hanley is a writer and honorary research fellow at Lancaster University.
