Demos Staff overview
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.
Jonathan Birdwell
Head of the Citizens Programme
Jonathan is Head of the Citizens Programme at Demos. His research expertise lies in counter-terrorism, public behaviour and drugs policy. He is also interested in theories of democracy and civic regeneration.
Josephine Brady
Events Officer and Operations Manager
Josephine is the Events Officer and Operations Manager at Demos.
Sophie Duder
Head of External Affairs
Sophie is Demos' Head of External Affairs and runs our partnership and events programmes.
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.
Rutger Birnie
Research Intern
Rutger joined Demos in February 2013 as a Research Intern with the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media.
Leah Brumer
Research Intern
Leah joined Demos in February 2013 as a Research Intern with the Citizens Programme.
Jonathan Senior
Communications and Media Intern
Jonathan joined Demos in January 2013 as the Communications Intern.
William Bradley
Alumni
William was a Researcher at Demos. He currently works as a researcher for the GLA.
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.
Ellie Brawn
Research Intern
Ellie joined Demos in June 2011 as a research intern working with Claudia Wood on health and social care for disabled people.
Rachel Briggs
Rachel is Research and Policy Director, Security and Integration at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. Between 2003 - 2008 she worked as Head of International Strategy and Head of the Identity Programme at Demos.
Jennifer Brindisi
Centre for London Intern
Jennifer joined Demos in January 2011 and works as an intern for the Centre for London.
Sarah Brown
Media and Communications Intern
Sarah joined Demos in February 2011 as a Media and Communications Intern.
Evrim Camuz
Research Intern
Evrim joined Demos in January 2013 as a Research Intern with the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media.
Alex Canfor-Dumas
Research Intern
Alex joined Demos in July 2010 as a research intern, working on the Character Inquiry.
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.
