Charles leads work on levelling up, climate change and tax at Demos. His book ‘Why Capitalists need Communists: the politics of flourishing’ was published by Palgrave in 2019. He was formerly Head of the Centre for Wellbeing at the New Economics Foundation, an advisor at the UK government Sustainable Development Commission and an organisational change consultant. He co-founded Prospect magazine and has an MBA from London Business School and a BA from Oxford.