Patrick Diamond is Professor of Public Policy at Queen Mary, University of London and Director of the Mile End Institute. He was formally Research Fellow in the Department of Politics at the University of Manchester, and Gwilym Gibbon Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. He is a Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College, Oxford and an Associate Member of Nuffield College. Patrick is on the Scientific Council of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) and a board member of the Campaign for Social Science. He held a number of senior posts in British central government between 2000 and 2010, and was formally Head of Policy Planning in 10 Downing Street. He was a Local Councillor in the London Borough of Southwark from 2010 to 2014.