Sam Bowman
Sam is head of publishing at Stripe and founding editor of Works in Progress. He co-authored The Housing Theory of Everything and writes the Consumer Surplus newsletter. He’s held roles at the Adam Smith Institute, Fingleton, and ICLE, and sits on the Mercatus Center’s board.
Matthew Burnett
Matt is a Frontier Specialist at ARIA, where he helps determine the scientific frontiers that could bring the greatest benefits to future generations. He previously worked at the United Nations, the US Department of Energy, Onward and the Institute for Physics.
Alan Chang
Alan is the co-founder and CEO of Fuse ($100M VC-backed), a renewable energy company on a mission to help the world transition to energy abundance. Before FUSE, Alan held key leadership roles at Revolut, including Chief Revenue Officer, and played a major part in scaling the company into $33B global fintech.
Tyler Cowen
Tyler is the Holbert L. Harris Chair of Economics at George Mason University and chairman and faculty director of the Mercatus Center. He coauthors the popular economics blog Marginal Revolution and co-founded Marginal Revolution University. Cowen is the author of several bestselling books, is a Free Press columnist and his podcast Conversations with Tyler features leading thinkers worldwide.
Pamela Dow
Pamela is COO of Civic Future and a former senior civil servant. Her roles in Government included Director of Strategy at the Ministry of Justice, Director of Operations for Tech City UK (now Tech Nation), Principal Private Secretary at the Department for Education, and founding Exec Director of the Leadership College for Government and Skills Campus.
Sam Dumitriu
Sam is Head of Policy at Britain Remade, a campaign to reform the UK’s planning system. His research has shaped recent legislation and appeared in outlets like the FT, Economist, and Times. He previously worked at several think tanks, including The Entrepreneurs Network.
Andrew Gilligan
Andrew was a senior adviser to Boris Johnson, both at City Hall and in Downing Street, and to Rishi Sunak in Downing Street. He was previously a journalist with the Telegraph, the BBC’s Today programme, the Evening Standard and the Sunday Times, and is a former Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards.
Harry Gillow
Harry is a barrister practising in public and commercial law. He has worked on secondment at the Bank of England and at the FCDO on consular issues during COVID. He is a member of the executive committee of the Society of Conservative Lawyers, and has co-authored papers on the Rwanda Bill, the previous government’s proposal for a Bill of Rights, and procurement reform.
Andrew Greenway
Andrew, a former senior civil servant, is a leading expert on public service reform. He co-founded Public Digital, advising global institutions on state capacity. Author of Digital Transformation at Scale and the influential Radical How report, he advised Pat McFadden before the 2024 election and serves as a non-executive director at the University of Exeter.
Conrad Griffin
Conrad has spent over a decade with Morgan Stanley’s Investment Banking Division in both London and Silicon Valley, advising blue-chip companies on major mergers and acquisitions and capital raisings. He also serves part-time with the 4th Battalion, the Parachute Regiment (Reserves), and made two personal aid trips directly into Ukraine before military service barred him from crossing the border.
Joe Hill
Joe is the policy director for Re:State, a public services think tank. He is a columnist for CityAM and is the co-founder of The Greater London Project, a group that campaigns to accelerate improvements in the city. Previously, he held senior roles in the Home Office and HM Treasury.
Michael Gove
Michael is the editor of The Spectator. He was previously a British politician and government minister, he served as Secretary of State for Education (2010-14), Justice (2015-16), Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (2017-19), and Housing and Levelling Up (2021-), Chief Whip (2014-15) and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (2019-21).
James Kuht
James runs Pair – an 18-month old AI adoption start-up helping organisations effectively Pair Human intelligence with Artificial intelligence. Pair works with UK Government, Boeing, Darktrace, and many small businesses across the world. Before that, he was a career public servant, having been CTO of a military Regiment and a member of No.10’s Data Science team.
Mustafa Latif-Aramesh
Mustafa is an infrastructure planning lawyer and Parliamentary Agent. He advises developers on obtaining planning consents and the government on infrastructure planning and regulatory reforms. He has advised on over 20 nationally significant infrastructure projects, including various proposals to bring small modular reactors to the UK.
Emily Lawson
Emily held senior roles at NHS England, including COO and leading England’s Covid-19 vaccine rollout. She headed the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit. Prior to this, she worked for McKinsey & Company, Morrisons, and Kingfisher plc in human resources.
Fergus McCullough
Fergus is the co-founder of Progress Ireland, Dublin’s first independent think tank. Before that, he was an early employee at Fuse Energy. He is an Emergent Ventures winner and a former Civic Future fellow. He publishes intermittently on his personal blog.
Tom McTague
Tom is the editor-in-chief of New Statesman. He was previously the political editor of UnHerd and a staff writer at The Atlantic based in London. He is the author of the forthcoming book Between the Waves: The Hidden History of a Very British Revolution 1945-2016 Tom McTague (2025).
Charlie Peters
Charlie is a national reporter at GB News, where he covers a broad range of stories across the country. He is best known for his investigations into the nationwide grooming-gangs scandal, with his reporting leading to policy changes in government and several political resignations and deselections.
Mark McVitie
Mark is Director of the Labour Growth Group. He previously worked at the Tony Blair Institute and Labour Together. His writing has appeared in publications such as the New Statesman and LabourList.
Lawrence Newport
Lawrence is a former lecturer at Royal Holloway University who successfully campaigned to ban XL Bully dogs from the UK in 2023. A regular contributor to The Telegraph, he now heads the campaigning organisation Crush Crime and co-founded the political movement Looking for Growth.
Jean-Andre Prager
Jean-Andre is a Senior Fellow at Policy Exchange, specialising in welfare reform and disability issues. He was previously a Special Adviser for the Department for Work and Pensions and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to the Prime Minister under the previous Conservative government.
Marc Warner
Marc is co-founder and CEO of Faculty – an AI company that connects cutting-edge technology with real-world applications. He sat on the Prime Minister’s AI Council and also helped the NHS use AI to save thousands of lives during the pandemic. He serves on the Court of Imperial College London, and was a Marie Curie Fellow in Physics at Harvard.
Ruxandra Teslo
Ruxandra has just submitted her PhD thesis in Genomics at the Sanger Institute, focusing on the study of aging through the perspective of somatic mutations and DNA methylation. She is now working on a brief postdoctoral stint to finish her PhD work. Ruxandra has written extensively about the intersection of culture, science and societal progress.
James Wise
James joined Balderton in 2013 and became Partner in 2016. He invests in AI, energy, productivity, and health, and sits on numerous boards including of Sophia Genetics, Depop, Tibber, and GoCardless. He also advises the UK Government on infrastructure investment and serves on the investment committee for Christ Church, Oxford.
Rachel Wolf
Rachel is a Founding Partner at Public First, leading the agency’s policy work. Previously education and innovation adviser to the Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street, she was also Senior Vice President for technology company Amplify in New York City, running one of their main product divisions. She also founded and ran the New Schools Network.
Tom Shinner
Tom has been COO at EF since 2019. Previously, Tom was a civil servant, serving as Director of Strategy at the education department, and then at DExEU coordinating the Government’s technical implementation of Brexit. In 2020, he spent four months seconded back to government to help establish the Covid Taskforce in 10 Downing Street.
Andy Street
Andy is a businessman and former Mayor of the West Midlands. He started his career at John Lewis, where he was a graduate trainee. He became Managing Director of John Lewis in 2007 and stayed with the company until 2016. Andy has worked with local and national governments in economic development roles.
Stephen Webb
Stephen is former Head of Government Reform and Home Affairs at Policy Exchange. He previously worked in HM Treasury, joining the Northern Ireland Office in 1995 working on political and security policy around the Good Friday Agreement, and in the Home Office, working on organised crime policy. In 2020 he moved to the Cabinet Office to work on border issues post Brexit.
Bobby Vedral
Bobby is the German-British CEO of Scyld Capital, a defence-focused asset manager, and author of macro-political newsletter MacroEagle. He has more than 25 years of experience in the City, as Partner at Goldman Sachs, Portfolio Manager at Toscafund and Managing Director at Deutsche Bank and UniCredit.