POLICY EXCHANGE LIMITED - Key Persons


Alessio Patalano

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fellow

Alex Simakov

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fellow of Energy & Environment

Andrew Gilligan

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fellow

Anthony Browne

Job Titles:
  • Director
Anthony Browne is appointed as Policy Exchange's second Director. Under Anthony Browne's directorship, Policy Exchange was described by the Telegraph as ‘the largest, but also the most influential think tank on the right'.

Ben Caldecott

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fellow, Energy & Environment

Benedict McAleenan

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fellow, Energy and Environment

Benjamin Barnard

Job Titles:
  • Head of Government, Politics and Technology Policy

Boris Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Prime Minister
Prime Minister Boris Johnson made his first address to a UK think tank, whilst speaking at the Policy Exchange launch of Charles Moore's book "Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume Three: Herself Alone".

Charles Moore

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Scholar

Chris Brannigan

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fellow

Clare Zubkowska

Job Titles:
  • Head of Events and Business Engagement Manager

Connor MacDonald

Job Titles:
  • Head of Economics and Social Policy

David Cameron

Former British Prime Minister David Cameron contributes the foreword to Delegitimising Counter-Terrorism: The Activist Campaign to Demonise Prevent. This is the first substantive examination of the Islamist groups opposing the government's Prevent counter-terrorism strategy.

David Goodhart

Job Titles:
  • Head of Demography, Immigration & Integration

David Martin Jones

Job Titles:
  • Professor

David Spencer

Job Titles:
  • Head of Crime & Justice

Dean Godson

Job Titles:
  • Director
Formerly head of the Security Unit, Dean Godson succeeded Neil O'Brien as Director. Dean is the longest serving Director at Policy Exchange and was made a member of the House of Lords in 2021.

Dr Damon Perry

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Fellow

Dr David Landau

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fellow

Dr Graham Gudgin

Job Titles:
  • Chief Economic Adviser

Dr Martyn Frampton

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fellow

Dr Paul Stott

Job Titles:
  • Head of Security and Extremism

Dr Sean Phillips

Job Titles:
  • Head of Health and Social Care

Dr Tony Sewell

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Fellow, Demography, Immigration and Integration

Dr William Schneider Jr

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Scholar
Visiting Scholar, Dr William Schneider Jr, former Chair of the US Defense Science Board, gives a major speech on "Delivering National Scientific & Technological Advantage". The speech coincided with the publication of Visions of ARPA, an essay collection with essays from two former science ministers. The paper argued that an Advanced Research Projects Agency and provided a blueprint for the UK Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), established in 20201.

Eric Kaufmann

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fellow

Gabriel Elefteriu

Job Titles:
  • Director of Strategy and Space Policy

Geoffrey Owen

Job Titles:
  • Head of Industrial Policy

Georgie Krone

Job Titles:
  • Head of Business Engagement

Gerard Lyons

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fellow

Graham Gee

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Hannah Ellis

Job Titles:
  • Director of Policy

Harry Halem

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow, Foreign Policy and Defence

Iain Mansfield

Job Titles:
  • Director of Research and Head of Education and Science

Ike Ijeh

Job Titles:
  • Head of Housing, Architecture & Urban Space

James O'Shaughnessy

James O'Shaughnessy joins Policy Exchange James O'Shaughnessy joins as Policy Exchange's Deputy Director and Director of Research

James Vitali

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow

James Wharton

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fellow

John Bew

Job Titles:
  • Head of Policy Exchange 's Britain
John Bew joins Number 10 John Bew, head of Policy Exchange's Britain in the World Project, is appointed as the Prime Minister's Special Adviser on Foreign Affairs. He went on to be the lead author of the Government's Integrated Review and authored Making Global Britain Work, a Policy Exchange report called for a grand strategy of ‘creative conservative internationalism'.

Josh Buckland

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fellow, Energy & Environment

Julia Mizen - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director

Juliet Samuel

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fellow

Khalid Mahmood

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fellow

Lord Sedwill

Lord Sedwill chairs major new Policy Exchange project, Re-engineering Regulation to offer a roadmap for regulatory reform fit for the post-Brexit, post-Covid era.

Lottie Moore

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow

Maureen O'Hara

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fellow

Neil O'Brien

Job Titles:
  • Director
Neil O'Brien was appointed as Policy Exchange's third Director after Anthony Browne joined Boris Johnson's London mayoral team.

Nick Timothy

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fellow

Oscar Bicket

Job Titles:
  • Head of Digital

Patrick Hennessey

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fellow

Peter Clarke

Job Titles:
  • CVO OBE QPM / Senior Fellow

Ray Bassett

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fellow on EU Affairs

Richard Ekins

Job Titles:
  • Head of the Judicial Power Project

Roderick Crawford

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Fellow

Ruth Kelly

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fellow, Economics and Social Policy

Samuel Hughes

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fellow

Sharon Lea

Job Titles:
  • Finance Manager

Sir John Jenkins

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fellow

Sir Noel Malcolm

Job Titles:
  • Senior Adviser on Human Rights

Sir Robin Wales

Job Titles:
  • Senior Adviser on Local Government, Skills and Housing

Sir Stephen Laws

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fellow, Judicial Power Project

Sophia Gaston

Job Titles:
  • Head of Foreign Policy and UK Resilience

Stephen Booth

Job Titles:
  • Head of the Britain in the World Project

Tom Kennedy - CCO

Job Titles:
  • Director of Communications

Tom Simpson

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Fellow

Trevor Phillips

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fellow