POLITEIA - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Professor of International Economic Law at City
David Collins is Professor of International Economic Law at City, University of London and a WTO specialist. He is currently City's Assistant Vice President (Research/REF) and heads the City Law School's Digital Trade Research Group. He previously practised commercial litigation in Toronto and was a prosecutor for the Attorney General in Ontario, Canada.
Job Titles:
- DIRECTOR of RESEARCH
- Founder
- Research Director
DR SHEILA LAWLOR (BARONESS LAWLOR)
Sheila Lawlor is the founder of Politeia. She served as its executive director from 1995-2020, developing the constitutional, economic and social policy programme with UK and international specialists and is Research Director (see below). Her publications can be seen here. She was made a Life Peer in October 2022.
DR SHEILA LAWLOR (BARONESS LAWLOR)
Sheila Lawlor is the founder and Research Director of Politeia. Her background is as an historian of 20th century British political history, having started working life in Cambridge as a research fellow at Sidney Sussex College and Churchill College. Her academic publications include Churchill and the Politics of War 1940-41, and she is now finishing a book on British Politics and Social Policy in the 1940 s (working title). At Politeia she focuses on the constitutional, economic and social programme. Her publications can be seen here. She was made a Life Peer in October 2022.
Frank Field sits in the House of Lords as a Non-Affiliated peer, having been Member of Parliament for Birkenhead between 1979 and 2019, sitting as a Labour MP until 2018, and thereafter as an Independent. He was elected by MPs in 2015 to be Chair of the Work and Pensions Select Committee, a position he held until 2019, having chaired the committee in its previous incarnation as the Social Security Select Committee between 1990 and 1997. Between 1997 and 1998 he was Minister for Welfare Reform in the first Blair Government and in 2010, he was appointed by the then Prime Minister, David Cameron, to lead an Independent Review on Poverty Life Chances.
Harold James is the Claude and Lore Kelly Professor in European Studies and a Professor of History and International Affairs at Princeton University, specialising in modern German, economic and financial history. He was awarded the Helmut Schmidt Prize for Economic History in 2004 and the Ludwig Erhard Prize in 2005, and was appointed an International Monetary Fund Historian in 2016.
Job Titles:
- Fellow of Trinity College
- PROFESSOR
Professor John Marenbon is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and the British Academy and Honorary Professor of Medieval Philosophy in Cambridge. His recent publications include Medieval Philosophy. A Very Short Introduction (2016). For Politeia he has written Intangible Assets: Funding Research in the Arts and Humanities (2018), co-published with New Direction, and Back to School! Preparation, Not Cancellation (2020) co-authored with Louise Moelwyn-Hughes and Dominic Sullivan.
Lord Lexden was ennobled in 2011 and sits in the House of Lords as a Conservative peer. An historian and author, he is a former Director of the Conservative Political Centre, is the official historian of the Conservative Party and Chairman of the Conservative History Group.
Lord McFall, who entered the House of Lords in 2010, is Lord Speaker, having previously served as Senior Deputy Speaker (2016 - 2021). Before entering the Lords in 2010, he was a Labour MP between 1987 and 2010, first for Dumbarton and later for West Dumbartonshire. During his time as an MP, he served as a Minister in the Northern Ireland Office (1998-1999) and as a Government Whip (1997-1998). He also chaired the Treasury Select Committee between 2001 and 2010. Before becoming an MP, he was a teacher and deputy headteacher.
Job Titles:
- Director at NYSE Euronext
Sir Brian Willamson is Director at NYSE Euronext, of MT Fund Management Ltd and Politeia, and is a trustee of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust. He was also the chairman of LIFFE, the Financial Services Authority, Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust, Resolution plc, Climate Exchange plc and HSBC Holdings. He was inducted into the Futures Hall of Fame in 2007.
Sir Vince Cable was Leader of the Liberal Democrats between 2017 and 2019, sitting as Member of Parliament for Twickenham between 1997 and 2015 and again from 2017 until 2019. He served as Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills in the Coalition Government between 2010 and 2015. He is a former Chief Economist for Shell.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Philosophy at Kings College London
Thomas Pink is Professor of Philosophy at Kings College London. After taking his Ph D from Cambridge he worked for four years in London and New York for a City merchant bank, returned to philosophy in 1990 as a Research Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, then lectured at Sheffield University, moving in 1996 to King's. He specialises in philosophy of mind; ethics; political philosophy; rational choice theory; medieval and early modern philosophy.
Job Titles:
- Professor and Chairman of the Institute of International Monetary Research
Tim Congdon is Professor and Chairman of The Institute of International Monetary Research at the University of Buckingham. He founded Lombard Street Research in 1989, where he was managing director (until 2001) and chief economist (from 2001 until 2005). He also served for five years (1992-1997) as a member of the Treasury Panel of Independent Forecasters, the ‘Wise Men'.
Vito Tanzi is an economist who was State Secretary for Economy and Finance in the Italian Government between 2001 and 2003, having previously served as Director of the Fiscal Affairs Department (1981-2000) and Chief of the Tax Policy Division (1974-1981) at the International Monetary Fund. Prior to those roles, he was Professor (1967-1974) and Chairman (1970-1973) of the Economics Department at Washington D.C. University.