Demos Staff overview
Fawzia Bakht
Events Assistant
Fawzia is an Events Assistant at Demos, helping with events at this year's Party Conferences.
Jamie Bartlett
Head of the Violence and Extremism Programme
Jamie is Head of the Violence and Extremism Programme. His primary research interests lie in terrorism, radical and extremist movements, Islamism and violent extremism, organised crime and gang related activity.
Louise Bazalgette
Researcher, Family and Society Programme
Louise is a Researcher on the Family and Society Programme. She specialises in children in care, ageing and mental health.
Jonathan Birdwell
Researcher, Violence and Extremism Programme
Jonathan is a Researcher at Demos specialising in counter-terrorism, public behaviour and drugs policy. His is also interested in theories of democracy and civic regeneration.
Jake Chapman
Associate
Jake has been a Demos Associate since 2002 and is working on the Legal Highs project.
Graeme Cooke
Currently on sabbatical
Graeme Cooke works on the Open Left project. He is currently on sabbatical working for David Miliband's leadership campaign.
Claire Coulier
Events Manager
Claire is Events Manager at Demos and works on developing and managing Demos' programme of events.
Richard Darlington
Head of the Open Left project
Richard Darlington is Head of the Open Left project whilst Graeme Cooke is on sabbatical.
David Steven
David Steven is a policy analyst, strategic consultant and researcher. He is Managing Director of River Path Associates, where he specialises in international responses to global risks and has worked for clients such as the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, the World Bank and the World Economic Forum.
Gillian Thomas
Gillian Thomas is a fully trained qualitative specialist with over seven years experience in one-to-one interviewing, focus group facilitation and ethnographic fieldwork. She is experienced in a wide range of innovative research methods including in-home ethnographic studies and large public engagement events.
Loren Treisman
Loren Treisman is the National Health and Well-being Project Manager at The Foyer Federation, an organization which develops and encourages new approaches to supporting young people at risk as they make their transition to adult independence.
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).
Theo Veenkamp
Theo Veenkamp is Dutch. He has had a long and successful career working across a number of organisations, primarily in the public sector.
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.
Michael Wilmott
Michael is co-founder of the Future Foundation and has 30 years experience as a researcher, analyst and forecaster.
James Wilsdon
James Wilsdon is Director of the Science Policy Centre at the Royal Society, the UK's national academy of science. From 2001 to 2008, he worked at Demos, first as Head of Strategy, then Head of Science and Innovation.
Ken Worpole
Ken Worpole is one of Britain's most influential writers on architecture, landscape and urban social policy, and the author of many seminal reports and books.
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.
George Furguson
Trustee
George is Chairman of Bristol-based Acanthus Ferguson Mann Architects, Past President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (2003-2005) and a founder and Director of the Academy of Urbanism.
Neil Sherlock
Trustee
Neil Sherlock is the partner in charge of public and regulatory affairs at KPMG.
Calum Benson
Communications Intern
Calum joined Demos in June 2010 as an Events & Communications Intern.
Joe Coward
Research Intern
Joe joined Demos in July 2010 as a research intern, working on the Open Left project.
Katie Dash
Research Intern
Katie joined Demos in August 2010 and is working on the Political Economy programme
Tom Gregory
Research Intern
Tom joined Demos in August 2010 and is working on the Progressive Conservatism project.
Sohail Jannesari
Research Intern
Sohail joined Demos in August 2010. He is a research intern on the Measuring Capabilities project.
Michael Keller
Research Intern
Michael joined Demos in July 2010 as a research intern working on the Citizenship Programme.
Tom McCarthy
Events and Communications Intern
Tom joined Demos in August 2010 as an Events and Communications Intern
Sarah Gillinson
Sarah joined Demos as a researcher in March 2004 and worked on public service reform, concentrating on learning and disability policy.
Bill Asquith
Research Intern
Bill joined Demos as a full-time research intern at the end of April 2010, working with Demos director of research Julia Margo.
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.
Jamie Bartlett
Head of the Violence and Extremism Programme
Jamie is Head of the Violence and Extremism Programme. His primary research interests lie in terrorism, radical and extremist movements, Islamism and violent extremism, organised crime and gang related activity.
Richard Darlington
Head of the Open Left project
Richard Darlington is Head of the Open Left project whilst Graeme Cooke is on sabbatical.
Charlie Edwards
Head of the Security Programme - on secondment
Charlie is Head of the Security Programme at Demos. He is currently on secondment to the home office.
Celia Hannon
Head of the Family and Society Programme
Celia is Head of the Family and Society Programme at Demos. She has published extensively on youth and family policy, housing, digital capabilities and children in care.
Her additional research interests include gender, childhood, new media and public space.
Samuel Jones
Demos/DCMS Policy Fellow
Samuel is currently on secondment at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. His interests include the arts, museums and galleries, and creativity.
Julia Margo
Acting Director
Julia is Acting Director at Demos. Her expertise is in social mobility, wellbeing and capabilities, education policy and anti-social behaviour.
Sonia Sodha
Head of the Public Finance Programme
Sonia Sodha is Head of the Public Finance Programme, with expertise in fiscal policy, public spending and public service and education reform.
Max Wind-Cowie
Head of the Progressive Conservatism Project
Max Wind-Cowie is Head of the Progressive Conservatism Project at Demos. His specialist areas include wealth and assets, the 'Big Society' and inequality.
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 Director-General for External and Politico-Military Affairs at the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union.
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.
