Trustees & Advisory Council

Professor Sir Tim Besley
School Professor of Economics and Political Science, LSE. Member of the National Infrastructure Commission. President of the Royal Economic Society.  Find out more

Professor Richard Bourke
Professor of the History of Political Thought and Fellow of King’s College, University of Cambridge. Specialist in enlightenment and post-enlightenment political ideas. Find out more

Natascha Engel
CEO of Palace Yard, a cross-party think tank. Former Labour MP for North East Derbyshire and House of Commons Deputy Speaker.

Ben Evans CBE
Director of the London Design Festival and Executive Director of the London Design Biennale. Governor of the University of the Arts London, and former Chair of the Mayor’s Cultural Leaders Board. Find out more

Professor Sir Anthony Finkelstein
President of City, University of London. Former Chief Scientific Adviser for National Security to HM Government. Find out more 

Lord Glasman
Maurice Glasman is a Labour Life Peer and Director of the Common Good Foundation. Author of Unnecessary Suffering (Verso 1996) and Blue Labour: The Politics of the Common Good (Polity 2022).

Andy Haldane
Chief Executive of the Royal Society of the Arts. Former Chief Economist, Bank of England, and member of the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee.

Professor Mark Pennington
Professor of Political Economy and Public Policy, King’s College London. Director of the Centre for the Study of Governance and Society. Find out more

John Gray
John Gray is a philosopher and writer. He taught political theory at Oxford and LSE and was visiting professor at Harvard and Yale. He writes and reviews regularly for the New Statesman.

Saffron Huang
Co-Director of the Collective Intelligence Project. Former Research Engineer, DeepMind. Find out more

Rt Hon David Laws
Executive Chairman of the Education Policy Institute and Education Partnerships Group. Former MP for Yeovil, and Minister for Schools and the Cabinet Office, 2010-2015. Find out more

John Myers
Co-founder of the YIMBY Alliance, which campaigns for better housing and places with the support of local communities. Previously worked in technology, finance and law. Find out more 

Mercy Muroki
Mercy is a senior policy advisor to the government who previously served as a Commissioner on the government’s Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities from 2020-21. She was also formerly a national broadcast journalist and columnist for The Times and The Sun.

Stian Westlake
Executive Chair of the Economic and Social Research Council (@ESRC) and former Chief Executive of the Royal Statistical Society. Former adviser to three UK science ministers. Former executive director of Nesta. Find out more

Professor Alison Wolf CBE (Baroness Wolf of Dulwich)
Sir Roy Griffiths Professor of Public Sector Management at King’s College London. Founding chair of governors at King’s College London Mathematics School and adviser to successive governments on skills and higher education. Find out more

Oksana Matiiash
CEO, Teach for Ukraine. Masters of Public Policy, University of Oxford. Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe. Find out more

Amanda Spielman
His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Schools since 2017, former chair of the exam regulator Ofqual. Previously worked in strategy consulting, finance and investment. Find out more 

Tyler Cowen
Tyler Cowen is the Holbert L. Harris Chair of Economics at George Mason University and serves as chairman and faculty director of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He is the co-author of the popular economics blog Marginal Revolution and a host of Conversations with Tyler, a popular podcast series.