Vicky Pryce
Chair of Radix Big Tent, Board Member
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Our fellows ensure the intellectual integrity of Radix Big Tent's work. They are a mixture of academics, writers, economists, business people, politicians and policy-makers able to bring their extraordinary expertise to reviewing our publications and advising on our work programmes and events.
While all our fellows support our general approach and share our interest in radical, practical system change, being a fellow does not of course imply support for any specific Radix Big Tent policy proposal or recommendation.
Chair of Radix Big Tent, Board Member
Chair of Radix Big Tent, Board Member
A regular on television, radio and podcasts, Vicky is Chief Economic Adviser at the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR and Chair of the Economic Advisory Board of the British Chambers of Commerce. She is also a Visiting Professor at King's College London.
She was previously Joint Head of the UK Government Economic Service, Director General for Economics at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and the Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting.
She is a former Partner and Chief Economist at the accounting and consulting firm KPMG and has held senior economic positions across the banking and the oil sectors. She is co-founder of GoodCorporation, a company set up to advise on corporate social responsibility. She was the first female Master of the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants. She is also on the steering committee of the Greek-British Symposium and on the Steering Council of komvos-node.org.
Her latest book, Mismanaged Decline, What Politicians won’t tell you about the Economy, jointly written with Prof Andy Ross, was published to coincide with the recent Budget and was the subject of one of Radix’s monthly webinars which can be heard here.
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Steff currently serves as the Liberal Democrat MP for North Norfolk since being elected at the 2024 general election. He was previously an entrepreneur working in the tech and entertainment sectors, and has been involved in digital transformation projects for 50+ S&P500 companies.
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Tim Bale teaches politics at Queen Mary University of London and is the author of books on both the Conservative and Labour parties, as well as European politics more generally. He also runs an ESRC-funded project on UK party membership in the twenty-first century: http://esrcpartymembersproject.org.
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Lewis Baston was born in 1971 and educated at local state comprehensive schools and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he graduated with a First in Politics, Philosophy and Economics in 1991. He studied under Dr David Butler, the founder of election studies in Britain, at Nuffield College, Oxford and also at Yale University in the early 1990s. He was subsequently assistant and archivist to Dr Butler. From 1994 to 1997 he was principal researcher to Anthony Seldon on the authorised biography of Prime Minister John Major, and from 1998 to 2002 he was a research fellow at Kingston University and historical adviser to a television company.
From 2003 until 2010 Lewis was Director of Research for the Electoral Reform Society, the UK’s leading NGO dealing with electoral matters. He has written several books of history and electoral studies, including guides to recent UK elections and the definitive biography of Reginald Maudling. Since 2010 he has been a research fellow at Democratic Audit, a think tank/ NGO, working on electoral and constitutional matters. In this capacity, he has appeared several times as an expert witness for Parliamentary Select Committees including the Speaker’s Conference on representation, and the Political and Constitutional Reform and Welsh Affairs Select Committees.
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Rachel Blake is a Labour and Co-Operative Party Member of Parliament. Rachel previously spent a decade as a councillor in Tower Hamlets and was Deputy Mayor of the Borough from 2018 to 2022. She has served as the Member for the Cities of London and Westminster since being elected in June 2024, and has been committed to advocating for her constituents both in Parliament and locally
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Educated at Charterhouse School and Pembroke College, Oxford, Nick has had a 34-year career in finance in the City of London most recently as Head of UK Investment Banking at Nomura. Prior to that, he held senior positions Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, Bankers Trust/Nat West Markets, Goldman Sachs, and BZW. In these positions, he provided corporate finance advice to FTSE 100 companies and, prior to that, providing financial market advice to global investment institutions.
He was Chair of a policy committee providing input during the 2012 London mayoral election and has been a member of the fund-raising committee for Policy Exchange, a think tank.
Nick is a Trustee of the Children’s Radio Foundation, an African based NGO enabling young Africans to make radio programmes.
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The Rt Hon Tom Brake is the Director of Unlock Democracy which campaigns for reforms in the UK including proportional representation and House of Lords reform. He was formerly Deputy Leader of the House of Commons, Liberal Democrat Brexit Spokesman and MP for Carshalton and Wallington.He also served as a local Councillor on Hackney and Sutton Councils.
He read physics at Imperial College, London and went to school in France and is a French speaker. He is a longstanding trustee of Ecolocal which delivers a broad range of environmental sustainability services that are designed to help people move toward more pro-environmental behaviours and advises Bioregional, an award-winning sustainability organisation which developed the One Planet Living framework. To take his mind off things, he runs and swims.
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Tom is the Executive Director of Progressive Policy Unit and author of the 2016 book: From Here To Prosperity, a practical policy agenda for a sustainable economy and greater social justice.
He is technical adviser to Tax Justice UK, a director of Taxpayers against Poverty and on the National Steering Group for Compassion in Politics. He is founder of The Real Agenda Network of podcasts for political change.
Tom had a successful entrepreneurial career in media and communications; his last role was as CEO of an international public relations firm.
Having once been a full-time student leader, he has stood for public office, edited a national political newspaper, been on the national organising committee of a political movement both in UK and USA where he was also a volunteer on the Bernie 2016 campaign.
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The Rt Hon Sir Vince Cable was formerly Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, President of the Board of Trade, leader of the Liberal Democrats and Member of Parliament for the Twickenham constituency. He was a former Chief Economist at Royal Dutch Shell.
His publications include Open Arms (2017), After the Storm: The World Economy and Britain’s Economic Future (2016), Free Radical, A Memoir (2010), among others. His memoir of the 2010s, written with wife Rachel, was published recently (Partnership and Politics in a Divided Decade).
Vince is currently a professor in practice at the London School of Economics, and visiting professor at Nottingham University and St Mary University, chair of HCT Group and director of RemindMeCare.
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Frances Coppola is an influential writer and speaker on economics, finance, and monetary policy. Formerly with Nat West, RBS and SBC Warburg, she now contributes regularly to Forbes and the Financial Times, and is the author of The Case For People’s Quantitative Easing.
She also sings as a soloist with local choral societies and other organisations.
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Tim Cowen is Chair of the Antitrust Practice at Preiskel & Co. He is independently recognised as one of the leading competition/regulatory lawyers in the EU. He leads the competition law team at Preiskel & Co where his practice covers a full range of competition law and regulatory matters arising across the Tech, Media and Telecoms sector.
He is the author of “Technopoly – and what to do about it” published by ResPublica in 2018.
Tim led BT’s competition law and public policy team for many years. He has dealt with almost every type of case in telecoms and competition law – advising on the application of the law and leading transactions and litigation. For example, he has acted on all major merger cases affecting the sector – either for parties to transactions or third parties affected by them. More recent cases include Google/Double Click, AT&T/ T Mobile, Syniverse/ Mach, Facebook/WhatsApp, BT/EE and H3G/O2.
Tim was awarded the title of ‘Distinguished Visiting Fellow’ at the European Business School in London and has lectured as a visiting professor at the City of London Law School, and at Imperial and Queen Mary Colleges in London. He is a Barrister and holds an MA (Cantab) in law.
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Geoff Crocker works in advocacy and research on concepts of basic income and sovereign money as the foundations of a new economic paradigm.
He graduated in Economics from Durham University and subsequently worked for a range of blue-chip companies and clients in industry strategy for over 25 years. He specialised in strategic analysis of international industry sectors with high technology content.
He is also currently the Chair of Bristol Care Homes Ltd and, formerly, of SUEK AG, a large coal and powergen company in Russia. He is the author of the International Energy Agency 2008 report on the implementation of clean coal technologies in the Russian coal industry.
He is the Editor of ‘The Case for Basic Income’ www.ubi.org, and the author of ‘Basic Income and Sovereign Money’ (Palgrave Pivot 2020) and ‘A Managerial Philosophy of Technology’ (Palgrave Macmillan 2012).
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After three years working for Jardines in Hong Kong, Nigel spent 31 years in the City of London, 16 years in investment banking, then 15 years as a fund manager running an activist fund. The fund took big stakes in under-performing companies and, working with the other major shareholders to build a consensus for change, engaged with management to implement change giving him a rare understanding of the UK corporate governance eco-system.
He is a chartered accountant with an Oxford Law degree. He retired in 2017.
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Guy de Selliers de Moranville was a senior advisor to the Atlantic Council’s Future Europe Initiative. He also currently serves as the president and co-founder of HCF International Advisors, a leading corporate finance advisory firm focused on the mining and metals industry.
Previously, he was an adviser to the European Commission and co-chairman with the Russian deputy minister of energy of a joint European/Russian task force for the development of energy projects of strategic interest (2001-02). From 1990 to 1997, he was the first member of the transition team responsible for creating the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and subsequently vice chairman of the credit committee and member of the EBRD’s executive committee. Prior, he was senior vice president for international investment banking at Lehman Brothers (1982-90), and a project officer with the World Bank responsible for metals and mining projects (1977-82).
Guy holds a master’s degree in engineering (with honors) and master’s degree in economics (with honors) from Louvain University in Belgium. He is a member of the RADIX board and formerly chair of RADIX.
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Panicos Demetriades, Professor of Financial Economics at the University of Leicester School of Business, is a leading academic in the field of financial fragility with work spanning the economies of over 100 countries.
Professor Demetriades is well known for his tenure as Governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus from 2012-2014, during which time he guided the country through one of Europe’s worst financial crises and oversaw a major restructuring and recapitalization of the Cypriot banking system using modern bank recovery and resolution tools.
The medium- and long-term implications of COVID-19 on the global economy is not yet known, but with the academic and real-world expertise of academics such as Professor Demetriades there is an opportunity to mitigate against the most damaging financial impacts by supporting the responses of central banks.
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Andrew Dixon is an angel investor, founder of ARC InterCapital. Starting his career at Société Générale and Goldman Sachs, he has spent over two decades investing in small and medium-sized UK businesses and is chair of the Lib Dem Business & Entrepreneurs Network. Andrew Dixon is Founder of The Woodhaven Trust.
Andrew co-authored The Commercial Landowner Levy (LVT solution for business rates) and founded Fairer Share (proportional property tax to reform Council Tax and Stamp Duty). He is a Radix fellow.
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Charlie is a writer, businessman and investor, and lived and worked in China for fifteen years. A Mandarin speaker, he has travelled extensively across the region, both in his work in the shipping industry, and in a personal capacity. Whilst living in Shanghai he was involved in a charity working with migrant workers who had become homeless, and helped found a club to help make the British expatriate community more cohesive. He now lives and works in London.
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Ismail Ertürk is Senior Lecturer in Banking and Director for Social Responsibility and Engagement at Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester. He joined the School in January 1987, having worked previously for a merchant bank in Istanbul.
From 1982-1983 he was a research fellow at Hull University. He then continued his postgraduate studies at New York University where he specialised in banking. He has taught corporate finance, bank financial management and international finance on both the School’s MBA and Executive Centre programmes. In recent years his teaching reflects his research interests in financialization and financial innovation that he investigates as part of an inter-disciplinary team at CRESC at the University of Manchester. He has undertaken advisory work for companies and government institutions internationally and has developed and directed senior banking programmes for the Executive Centre.
He has held visiting positions on Executive MBA Programmes at Stockholm School of Economics, St Petersburg, Istanbul Bilgi University, and ESCP-EAP, Paris.
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Peter Fischer Brown is an international corporate and marketing strategist, working primarily in the communications and technology industries in Europe and across the Near and Middle East.
Before founding his own consultancy, Peter was Strategy Director at Orange (France Telecom Group) specialising in the business market, having previously focused as Ambassador of Strategy for the Group on Eastern Europe and the Middle East. He holds degrees from the University of Cambridge in Languages and Literature and in International Relations (Masters from the Centre of International Studies, with specialist research in the politics of Europe’s response to Climate Change). He was also a German government scholar at the University of Freiburg.
An Anglo-German, Peter is a passionate European and internationalist.
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George Freeman is a British Conservative Party politician serving as the Member of Parliament for Mid Norfolk since 2010, after a 15 year career in the Cambridge cluster founding high-growth technology companies.
George has served in the last three Governments as UK Trade Envoy, the first UK Minister for Life Science, Chair of the Prime Minister’s Policy Board and Minister of State for Decarbonisation, Disconnection & Digitalisation at the Department for Transport. In 2022 he was appointed as Minister of State for Science, Technology, Research and Innovation at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. In 2023 George was appointed as Minister of State in the newly-created Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.
He previously led the Prime Minister’s Task Force on Innovation, Growth and Regulatory Reform (TIGRR).
As Founder of the 2020 Conservatives Group of MPs, author of Britain Beyond Brexit and Chair of the Conservative Policy Forum, Freeman is a leading Conservative voice for a New Generation of Conservative Reform, Regeneration and Renewal after the divisions of Brexit and the Covid recession.
A long-standing localist committed to bold decentralisation as core to unlocking the UK as a Innovation Nation, Freeman has written, spoken and worked around the country through the Big Tent Festival and Foundation to promote new approaches to decentralised growth, levelling up and regeneration.
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Dr Paul Goldsmith is a consultant physician with a triple 1st from Cambridge and a clinical scholarship from Oxford. His PhD assessed and showed that the simplicity of developmental biology could be use to understand complex human disease. He then went on to co-found and help build both biotech and digital health companies.
His current company, Closed Loop Medicine, is taking an integrated systems approach to clinical therapy. He also has extensive NHS systems and strategic experience, including Clinical Networks, Vanguard and Clinical Senate roles.
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Stephen retired from running Europe's largest general aviation parts wholesaler in 2020 and Chaired the Liberal Democrat Business Network from April '22 to September '24. He has assisted Best For Britain's UK Trade & Business Council, is on the board of Make Votes Matter and is elected Vice Chair of Unlock Democracy.
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Dominic Charles Roberts Grieve KC PC is a British barrister and former politician who served as Shadow Home Secretary from 2008 to 2009 and Attorney General for England and Wales from 2010 to 2014. His work as Attorney General has been in the field of Public and Constitutional Law with cases in the Supreme Court, European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights. He was elected Conservative MP for Beaconsfield on 1 May 1997. Dominic held a number of positions in the shadow cabinet including Shadow Attorney General and Shadow Secretary of State for Justice. He was Chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament from 2015-2019.
Dominic was educated at Westminster School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied modern history. He has recently completed a review of governance for Islamic Relief Worldwide, a leading humanitarian charity. He is a visiting professor in Law, Politics and Human Rights at Goldsmiths, London University and a member of the Northern Ireland Bar. He is currently Barrister at Law at Temple Garden Chambers.
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Ashok Gupta is Director of the New Capital Consensus project, a coalition of not-for-profit, apolitical organisations that have come together to explore how the current UK investment system contributes to the country’s current problems of low productivity, inequality and low levels of investment.
Ashok is also Chair of the Financial Systems Thinking Innovation Centre (Finstic), Chair of Mercer UK, and Chair of EV. He is a non-executive Director of Sun Life Financial Inc and of JP Morgan European Discovery Trust.
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Monica Harding is the Liberal Democrat MP for Esher and Walton, and has been an MP continually since 4 July 2024. She currently undertakes the role of Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (International Development). Monica was the first Liberal Democrat MP in her constituency for over 150 years and the first ever female MP for Esher and Walton.
Monica has worked as a Director and CEO in the private, public and charity sectors. She was a Director of Communications with the British Council in London, Paris, Tokyo and Shanghai from 1997 to 2003. She was President and CEO of Refugees International Japan and sat on the Board of Refugees International USA. She founded The Britain Project in 2020, a convening space for progressives - a non-partisan, political movement seeking to build a broad liberal and progressive coalition built on the politics of hope, decency, integrity, fairness and the common-good. She hopes it can contribute to tackling the solutions to the big challenges we face - rather than lurching from election to election with no clear plan on the future of Britain.
Monica came into politics in 2019 with no political experience. Her priorities for Esher and Walton are to ease the cost of living, improve access to local health services and protect the NHS, and look after the environment including cleaning up local rivers - the Thames and the Mole - which have been blighted by sewage. She has a keen interest in education, wants to better support schools, refashion the curriculum for the future and improve access to mental health and SEN support for young people.
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Claire Hazelgrove is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliaments for Filton and Bradley Stoke since 2024. She is an experienced campaigner and changemaker, with recent work on the impact of underfunded schools, unreliable public transport, crime and more in the media. Working her way up from an activist on the Make Poverty History campaign in 2005, for 17 years, Claire has brought people together to shape and achieve change that they believe in - locally, nationally and internationally.
Claire is an active local charity trustee, where she uses her experience and track record in effective community engagement to help people access support and community across South Gloucestershire and Bristol.
Claire holds a degree in Politics from the University of York and a Masters in Public Policy. At the time of her selection as a prospective Labour candidate in 2010 she was the second-youngest Parliamentary Candidate in party history.
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Michael Holland was a banker in the Middle East, New York and London. He became a serial entrepreneur in the financial services sector and is now an angel investor in small companies.
He read Politics, Philosophy & Economics at Lincoln College, Oxford.
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Professor Ibrahim Ibrahim is a futurist, author, designer and place strategist. He is an Honorary Professor of Cardiff University and the Welsh School of Architecture, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Board Member of the UK Government High Street Task Force, and an advisory board member of ‘Across’, the European placemaking publication.
As the Managing Director of Portland Design, Ibrahim leads a team of highly strategic and creative thinkers and designers.
Over a career spanning 30 years Ibrahim has worked on a broad range of projects covering urban regeneration, mixed use developments, shopping centres, airports, train stations, retail, food and consumer brands. He works with a wide range of clients worldwide, his work covers trend analysis and insights, strategy definition, place branding and experience masterplanning.
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For three decades, Barry James has been a tech innovator, architect and entrepreneur leading innovation in the NHS, and later in Fintech, Blockchain and Frontier technologies, winning some major UK, US and European patents along the way. As a writer, ecological and systems thinker and analyst more recently, he has focused on the, largely hidden, societal implications of the design and advent of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), via the RemakingMoney project – and the deep impact and dangers of financialised thinking on society and planetary ecology via the Humane Economics project, both of which he founded. He is a fellow of Radix UK
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Annalisa Jenkins, M.B.B.S., F.R.C.P. is a biopharma thought leader with over 25 years of industry experience. Dr. Jenkins has extensive recent experience in building and financing biotech companies pursuing cures for the most challenging rare diseases to address important medical issues globally. She has consistently built and led teams advancing programs from scientific research through clinical development, regulatory approval, and into healthcare systems globally. In addition, she is an advocate for diversity and inclusion, particularly for women in science.
Dr. Jenkins served as president and CEO of Dimension Therapeutics, a leading gene therapy company that she took public on the NASDAQ and subsequently sold to Ultragenyx. Prior leadership roles have included the head of global research and development and executive vice president global development and medical at Merck Serono, and several senior positions at Bristol Myers-Squibb over 15 years – including serving as senior vice president and head of global medical affairs. Earlier in her career, Dr. Jenkins was a medical officer in the British Royal Navy during the Gulf Conflict, achieving the rank of surgeon lieutenant commander.
She is a Trustee of the British Heart Foundation and the Kings Fund, and a Board member at Genomics England.
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Sir Simon David Jenkins FSA FRSL FLSW (born 10 June 1943) is a British author, Guardian columnist, BBC broadcaster and editor. He was editor of the Evening Standard from 1976 to 1978 and of The Times from 1990 to 1992. Jenkins chaired the National Trust from 2008 to 2014. He currently writes columns for The Guardian.His recent books include England's Hundred Best Views, and Mission Accomplished? The Crisis of International Intervention.
Sir Simon is a University of Oxford graduate.
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Daniel Jonas is Head of Research & Innovation at Pay.UK. He is a leader of research & insight unit at the UK's payments infrastructure operator, working across industry to drive whole-system strategy and innovation to implement the National Payments Vision.
Daniel is an expert in payments infrastructure renewal with a global network of operators and peer organisations, both in financial services and critical engineering infrastructure. He is a trusted X & C-level strategic advisor, with 20+ years of experience advising blue-chips from financial services, infrastructure, engineering, FMCG, healthcare, ICT, government, and social enterprise. He has recognised expertise as a cross-sector systems thinker, known for challenging conventional thinking, driving fresh strategic direction in complex ecosystems, and fostering collaborative innovation to bring about change.
Daniel is also a published writer, engaging speaker & media-savvy presenter, with deep expertise in thought leadership and industry challenge.
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Sir John Anderson Kay, CBE, FRSE, FBA, FAcSS is a British economist. He was the first dean of Oxford’s Said Business School and has held chairs at the London School of Economics, the University of Oxford, and London Business School. He has been a fellow of St John's College, Oxford, since 1970.
Sir John is a regular editorial contributor to the Financial Times, where he has also had a weekly column since 1995. In 2012 he presented a substantial report to the British government on reform of the equity market.
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Kevin Langford is an experienced policy analyst who currently works on policy analysis, particularly in the areas of climate change, taxation and distribution policies, with Radix and the Liberal Democrats.
He is also chairman of Immediate Media Bristol, NED at Frontline, and at Employment Autism. From 1998 to 2020 he was CFO of the Immediate Media Co.
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The Rt Hon Lord Lansley of Orwell served as Conservative MP for South Cambridgeshire from 1997-2015. For thirteen years he was a member of the Cabinet or Shadow Cabinet. In the Cabinet, he served as Secretary of State for Health and as Leader of the House of Commons and Lord Privy Seal in which role he led the implementation of the Government’s legislative programme. He served on several parliamentary select committees including Trade and Industry, Health, the Puttnam Commission (scrutinising the draft Communications Bill) and various standing committees including the Water Bill, the Competition Bill and the Enterprise Bill.
He was former Vice Chairman of the Conservative party and Director of the Conservative Party Research Department. He was previously Deputy Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce and Principal Private Secretary to the Rt Hon Norman Tebbit MP.
As an MP, he was a strong supporter of local business, enterprise and innovation and was a staunch champion for the ‘Cambridge Cluster’; the leading science and technology hub in Europe where he was instrumental in delivering key developments for the region. He was educated at the University of Exeter where he was President of the Guild of Students.
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Neal Lawson is a British political commentator and organiser. He is currently Executive Director at Compass, a British left-centre campaign group, and has been helping to lead since its formation in 2003. He is more focused than ever on how to make big transformative change happen, working on strategy, relationships and funding. Neal is also a Spokesperson for the Progressive Alliance and Partner at Jericho Chambers.
Since graduating from Nottingham Polytechnic (now Nottingham Trent University) Neal worked for the Transport and General Workers Union in Bristol, before going on to work for Lord Bell at Lowe Bell Political as a lobbyist. In 1997 he co-founded a lobby and PR company, LLM Communications, before co-founding Compass.
Neal writes for The Guardian, the New Statesman, and OpenDemocracy about equality, democracy and the future of the left, and appears on TV and radio as a political commentator. He was the author of All Consuming (Penguin, 2009), which analysed the social cost of consumerism. He is also managing editor of the quarterly progressive policy journal Renewal.
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Polly Mackenzie is a British political and civic society worker and journalist, serving as the director of policy for the Deputy Prime Minister for 2010–2015. Since 2022 she has been the Chief Social Purpose Officer of the University of the Arts London.
Polly previously served as Chief Executive of Demos, the UK’s leading cross-party think tank, which brings citizen voice and lived experience into public policy discussions. Previous civil society roles include founding CEO of the Money & Mental Health Policy Institute and establishing the operations of the Women’s Equality Party. From 2010-2015 she was Director of Policy to the Deputy Prime Minister, based in 10 Downing Street and the Cabinet Office, having worked as a policy advisor to the Liberal Democrats since 2004.
Polly’s recent publications include The Gravitational State, The Humble Policy Maker, Living in the Exponential Age, and The Social State: From Transactional to Relational Public Services. She is a member of the Social Value Taskforce, a trustee at Shift Foundation, and a non-executive director of Registry Trust, a not-for-profit provider of credit data.
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Sally Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Huyton is a British Labour Party politician and Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. She previously worked for eight years in 10 Downing Street and was Minister for Women and Equalities.
Sally Morgan served on the Olympic Delivery Authority board for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and is a former Chair of Ofsted and vice-chair at King’s College London. After her first degree at Durham University, where she graduated in 1980 with a BA in geography, she went to King’s College London to study for a Postgraduate Certificate in Education and worked as a secondary school teacher from 1981-1985. She later received an MA in Education from the Institute of Education.
She has always been very involved in education, and since 2005 has been Chair or advisor to charities serving disadvantaged young people including ARK, Ambition Institute and Frontline. She is currently a trustee of the Education Policy Institute and is also Chair of the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Hospitals.
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Simon Mundy is the former Director of the National Campaign for the Arts and co-founded the European Forum for the Arts and Heritage (now Culture Action Europe). He is a published author, poet and throughout his career he has been a columnist for various classical music magazines, as well as presenting on radio. He has served on the boards of several arts organisations, including the European Union Baroque Orchestra and the Sidney Nolan Trust. He has been an adviser to the Council of Europe, Ford Foundation and UNESCO, among many others. For a decade he was involved with various units of the War Studies Department at King’s College London dealing with culture and conflict and has directed festivals in Caithness and Utrecht
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Alexandra Notay is an internationally recognised expert on housing, placemaking and ESG. She has 20 years’ strategic advisory and investment experience having worked extensively across four continents. In August 2024 Alex took over the chair of the Radix Big Tent Housing Commission from Dame Kate Barker.
Until July 2024 she was Placemaking and Investment Director at Thriving Investments (formerly PfP Capital), the fund and asset management arm of Places for People Group, overseeing a UK-wide residential strategy. Achievements include a £390mn JV with Housing Growth Partnership and the successful acquisition of award-winning sustainable developer igloo Regeneration, on whose Board she served.
Alex is a published author and editor of over 30 books and reports on real estate including the renowned ULI UK Best Practice Guide on Build to Rent (2014, 2016). She is also an experienced government advisor, serving on two Ministerial Steering Boards at MHCLG for Digital Planning and PropTech. She previously served as an Independent Commissioner on the UK government’s Geospatial Commission where she chaired the Property workstream and the National Land Use Data Programme. She has also served five years as Co-Chair of the Creative Land Trust and is a Trustee of St Mary Redcliffe.
Alex holds a BA in International Relations from the University of Sussex and a Master’s Diploma in Strategy and Innovation from University of Oxford Saïd Business School.
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Jo Phillips is an award-winning journalist and former spin doctor. Her career has spanned politics, public affairs and media. She has worked for all the UK’s major broadcasters, was editor of the Radio 5Live politics show Sunday Service, produced live TV coverage of party conferences and has played a key role in local, European and general elections.
She was Director of Communications for Bob Geldof's media company, Ten Alps and was heavily involved in Live8. She was also Paddy Ashdown's Press Secretary and worked on the Home Office’s Y Vote campaign.
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Magdalena Polan is a Principal and Lead Economist for major emerging market economies in Central Europe and the Middle East for PGIM Fixed Income and is based in London. She is a senior economist working in the asset management industry, responsible primarily for macroeconomic analysis and investment strategy across global emerging markets. Before moving to investment management, she was a senior economist at Goldman Sachs, where she led research coverage of CEE economies, advising financial and corporate investors on the economic outlook, policy conditions, and investment strategies in CEE and wider emerging markets, and commenting frequently on these issues in the CEE and European media.
Prior to that, she spent six years at the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC, where she worked on crisis prevention and resolution, sovereign debt restructurings, development of capital markets, and issues related to monetary policy and sovereign asset and liability management. She also advised a number of governments in these areas.
Her research work has mainly focused on monetary policy, inflation, international trade, and development of capital markets. She holds a MSc in Advanced Economics from KU Leuven and BSc in Economics from Warsaw University. She is also a graduate of Warsaw’s Collegium Invisibile where she studied sociology and political science.
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A journalist and author, Corrado Poli is Adjunct Professor at Libera Università IULM, Milan, Italy. He is also in charge of the design and organisation of an International Master course in Urban Management. Corrado serves in the Technical and Scientific Committee of the Natural Park of Colli Euganei, a public body located in Veneto Region, Italy. He previously taught Economics and Environmental Ethics at the University of Bergamo, Italy form 2004 to 2011. From 2008 to 2011, Corrado served as President of the International Urban Fellows Association (IPS-IUFA) established at the Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies, Baltimore, Md.
Corrado serves on journals boards and consults for international organisations and governmental institutions. He has taught official courses at European and foreign universities such as University of Trieste (Italy), the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (USA), Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane (Australia), and Ovid University, Costanta (Romania). He has also lectured and offered short courses in Poland (University of Lodz), Brazil (Itajai), Argentina (Santa Fe), and in several American University such as University of Colorado, Boulder (Co.), and U.C. Berkeley (Ca.). Corrado consults on urban and environmental policy and is an editorialist for newspapers and TV networks.
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Louise is an actuary and risk specialist with 30 years of experience in actuarial consulting, software development and academia, having worked with a variety of clients in the public and private sectors. She is currently Chair of the Ecology Building Society.
Her recent experience is in climate risk and sustainability, with a focus on the role of the financial services sector.
Louise is a past President of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and an Honorary Professor in the Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction.
As well as trying to change the global financial system so that it acts in support of a just society and a sustainable world, Louise is a keen hill walker (in spite of living in Cambridge), an avid parkrunner, and enjoys researching early medieval landscape history.
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Marvin Jonathan Rees, Baron Rees of Easton OBE is a British Labour Party politician who served as the second and final Mayor of Bristol from 2016 to 2024. Marvin was the first person of black African heritage to be elected mayor of any major European city. He was created a life peer in February 2025. Marvin currently serves as President of the British Exploring Society, Ambassador for Empire Fighting Chance and Ambassador for Tearfund.
Marvin has worked in diverse areas throughout his career, originally freelance journalist and radio presenter at BBC Radio Bristol and Ujima Radio. He was the Communications and Events Manager at Black Development Agency (now Phoenix Social Enterprise), an agency devoted to empowering individuals and communities through opportunities to work abroad. In the city of Bristol, Marvin was employed as the programme manager for race equality in mental health issues at Public Healthl. In the United States, he worked as an outreach assistant at the Sojourners Community and as a youth coordinator at Tearfund.
Marvin has obtained a master's degree in Political Theory and Government from Swansea University, and a master's degree in global economic development from Eastern University. Later he completed the World Fellows Program at Yale University.
Chair of Fellows
Chair of Fellows
Mark has worked for over 30 years in commercial real estate, town centre regeneration, and placemaking, at the intersection where public, private, and community interests meet.
Over the past seven years, after a leadership role at Revo and chairing the government’s High Streets Task Force, he has increasingly focused on public policy, systems change, promoting partnerships, and leadership.
Mark successfully built and sold two commercial real estate businesses, most recently Ellandi, which was sold to NewRiver REIT in July 2024. Over 16 years, Ellandi undertook projects worth over £2 billion, gained B Corp status and won awards for inclusion, public-private partnership and entrepreneurship.
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Fellow
Lucy is a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and a Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary. She is also Chair of the IFoA Sustainability Board and currently works for a large global insurer.
Fellow
Fellow
Robert Shaw is a subject matter expert in third‑party risk management, outsourcing and operational resilience. He supports risk, procurement and commercial teams across financial services, the public sector and major commercial organisations, and provides specialist insight during complex commercial negotiations. His work includes advising firms and regulators on the governance and assurance of critical outsourced and intragroup arrangements, drawing on deep experience assessing frameworks against regulatory requirements.
He previously held senior commercial and financial roles in the outsourcing and technology sectors, including a period running a pioneering social‑networking startup. Robert began his career in consulting, working on financial process improvement and large‑scale technology change programmes for global clients.
Robert focuses on how organisations can strengthen resilience and improve outcomes within real‑world commercial, regulatory and operational constraints. He is an EMCC‑accredited coach, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, and holds a First‑Class BA in Geography from the University of Liverpool.
Board Member, Fellow
Fellow
Fellow
Professor Stephen K Smith is a clinician scientist having held senior positions in Academic Medicine and the NHS at the University of Cambridge, Imperial College, London and most recently the University of Melbourne.
Prof Smith led the formation of the UK’s first Academic Health Science Centre at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and was its first CEO. A gynaecologist by training, he has published over 230 papers on reproductive medicine and cancer. He was awarded his Doctor of Science in 2001 for his work in Cambridge on the complex gene pathways that regulate the growth of blood vessels in reproductive tissue.
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Fellow
Ian R Smith is chairman of the Four Seasons Health Care Group, the UK’s leading independent health and social care provider, with over 20,000 patients and residents across the country. He has previously been CEO of General Healthcare Group, comprising 70 hospitals in the UK. He published a book in 2007 called Building a World-Class National Health Service.
During his career, Mr Smith has been a CEO of Royal Dutch/Shell Group businesses in the Middle East; CEO of Reed Elsevier, an information company; CEO of Taylor Woodrow, the house-building and construction company; CEO Europe for Exel, the logistics and transportation group; and CEO of Monitor Company Europe, a strategy consulting firm. At Monitor Company he pioneered concepts in competitive strategy, national competitiveness and organisational behaviour (with Professors Michael Porter and Chris Argyris, both of Harvard Business School).
He has an MA from Oxford and an MBA from Harvard. He is an adjunct professor at Imperial College Business School, and an honorary professor at Salford University.
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Fellow
Ron Soonieus is a Senior Advisor for Boston Consulting Group’s Social Impact practice. He also serves as Director in Residence at INSEAD, and is a non-executive director at the University of the Arts in the Netherlands.
Ron’s focus and expertise mostly involve integrating sustainability and ESG (environmental, social, and governance) into corporate strategy, governance, and culture. He has worked with clients to fill executive and non-executive boards in sustainability and ESG. Ron works with clients to help them develop a culture of purpose and adopt a sustainable corporate mindset and behaviors.
In his appointment as Director in Residence at INSEAD, Ron researches and teaches about the role of the board in sustainability and ESG
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Fellow
Andrew is Group Planning Director at Vistry which includes Bovis, Countryside and Linden Homes. Vistry develops private, affordable and privately rented homes through partnerships with landowners, registered providers, institutional investors and local authorities, with a focus on urban regeneration schemes, landscape led developments and new settlements.
Before joining Countryside/Vistry, Andrew was Head of Planning for a developer in the Eastern Counties and prior to that spent over 18 years in planning authorities in the southeast of England. He has experience of both urban and rural planning from small scale exception needs housing to master planning new settlements, major town centre redevelopments and international airport expansion.
Andrew chaired the Royal Town Planning Institute Board of Trustees for 4 years to December 2016 and was Hon. Treasurer for 6 years from January 2017. He remains a Trustee, on the RTPI’s General Assembly and Chairs the English Policy Committee.
Andrew is a member of the Home Builders Federation National Planning committee, the Policy and Technical Committee of the Land, Planning and Development Federation, Co-chairs the Place and Nature steering group of the Future Homes Hub and is a member of the Women in Planning Advisory board, championing planning and inspiring all those involved in the planning process and in delivering the new planning agenda.
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Fellow
Astrid Vargas is a conservation biologist with a proven track record in setting up, developing, leading and monitoring environmental conservation programs, conducting scientific research, developing and running educational and training programs, fundraising, plus developing and reviewing conservation policy.
From 2011 She worked for Tompkins Conservation as a Conservation Director for Europe. She has served as a central figure in the recovery of two of the world´s most endangered mammals: the Iberian lynx in Spain and the black-footed ferret in North America. This work has earned her international recognition, including awards such as the Environmental Career Achievement Award granted by the Andalusian government. She was selected by El País as one of the top 100 people of the year across Spain and Latin America.
Astrid founded Inspiration 4 Action in 2017 to give wings to the intersection between communities, biodiversity, art, and landscape restoration. Through Inspiration 4 Action she works with individuals, communities and organisations to help develop creative ways of nurturing nature and achieving regenerative change in landscapes and communities.
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Fellow
Leon Wansleben is a Research Group Leader on the Research Group for Contested Ecologies at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies. He was Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science from 2014 to 2018.
Leon's scholarly interests are in political sociology, economic sociology, financialization, and sociological theory. His broader aim is to analyze changes in specific social fields in conjunction with broader capitalist transformations. For that purpose, his research combines different strategies for investigation, including ethnographic studies of organizations, markets, and policy-making areas and (comparative) historical methods. In the past, he has employed these methods to investigate how regimes of expertise in financial markets change with the rise of asset-manager capitalism. He has also used them to study how organizational practices at the Bank of England and the Swiss National Bank have been transformed since the 1970s, turning these central banks into powerful macroeconomic policy-makers.
With his Research Group on Contested Ecologies at the MPIfG, Wansleben investigates institutional and organizational processes in politics and the economy that are unleashed by decarbonization as a demand, challenge, opportunity, and actual development. He especially welcomes dissertation projects within this field, but also supervises PhD projects in the sociology of finance and projects that address shifting boundaries between political and financial realms.
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Fellow
Patience Jane Wheatcroft, Baroness Wheatcroft is a British journalist and life peeress.
Patience previously served as editor of The Sunday Telegraph newspaper. Deciding to see what business was like from the other side, and joined the boards of Barclays and property company, Shaftesbury. She returned to journalism, editing the Wall Street Journal Europe. She joined the Lords in January 2011.
Patience is on the board of Fiat SpA and St James’s Place Capital, and is also the deputy chairman at the British Museum.
Board Member, Fellow
Board Member, Fellow
Joe Zammit-Lucia is a RADIX Co-Founder and board member. He is an entrepreneur and commentator on business and political issues writing in outlets in the UK, US, Germany and the Netherlands. His particular interest is the relationship between business and politics.
