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.
Simon Parker
Simon Parker is interested in public service reform and local governance. His current projects include work on restoring trust in councils and on the future of New Zealand's public services
Christian Barnett
Christian is Executive director of strategic planning for Global Client partners at BrandBuzz, New York.
Nick Bent
Nick is a co-founder of the UK’s first specialist Thought Leadership consultancy, TLG Communications, where he is Public Affairs Director. He is a former Special Adviser at the Department for Culture Media and Sport, and was previously Director of the think tank Policy Network. He lives in Old Trafford, Manchester and Kilburn, London.
Tom Bentley
Tom Bentley will be Executive Director for policy and cabinet for the Premier of Victoria, Australia from September 2006. He was Director of Demos from 1999-2006.
Kirsten Bound
Kirsten Bound was a senior researcher at Demos until 2008. Her work at Demos focused on democracy and emerging science and innovation in India and Brazil. She is author of India: the uneven innovator and Brazil: the natural knowledge economy and co-author with Paul Skidmore of the Everyday Democracy Index.
Alessandra Buonfino
Alessandra's primary interests are in the areas of belonging, migration and emotions.
Danny Chesterman
Danny is a consultant specialising in leadership development and whole system change in public service.
Hilary Cottam
Hilary is a social entrepreneur whose recent projects include a radical re-think of the prison system, a new approach to designing schools for the 21st century and new services for preventative health care.
John Craig
John is Director of The Innovation Exchange, which works to grow innovation from the third sector
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.
