THE RSA - Key Persons
Abby is the Assistant Archivist.
Abby started working at the RSA in 2019. She started as a volunteer, then became a part-time, then full time member of staff. She assists Eve with the day-to-day management of the archive including, supervising researchers, assisting with enquiries, accessioning, appraisal, and cataloguing. Abby gained an MA from University College London in 2017 and has volunteered in a variety of different archives including the BT Archives, TFL Corporate Archives and The National Theatre Archives. Abby is continuing her professional development as a newly qualified archivist and attends yearly conferences to further her knowledge.
Abby also has BA in Music and an MA in Music Performance from The University of Chichester and in her spare time loves to listen to music and sing with the West End Musical Choir. She is also a season ticket holder at Harlequins and loves watching rugby. Abby also enjoys writing, walking, and spending time with her family and two dogs.
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- Front of House Assistant / Research Assistant
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- Fellowship Services Coordinator
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- Communications Coordinator
- Member of the RSA Team
- Area Communications Coordinator
Alex has a background in graphic design and has worked in independent publishing for over eight years. Her interest in social justice issues has mainly been explored through working with charities and community arts projects on a voluntary basis.
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- Joint Head of Public Events Programme
Alex is Joint Head of the Public Events Programme.
She works on programming, partnerships and engagement, and oversees the innovative online and animated formats that take RSA Events to a global audience of millions.
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- Head of Fellowship Development and Services
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- Senior Evaluation Manager
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- Head of Policy and Participation ( Family Leave )
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- Area Manager
- Member of the RSA Team
- Area Manager ( Scotland )
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- Chief Executive
- Chief Executive Officer
- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
Social connectivity was a theme of the 695th Lord Mayor's Lecture Series. In it, our CEO, Andy Haldane, explored the role of social capital and connectivity in nurturing health, wealth and happiness, among other things.
Andy Haldane is the Chief Executive of the RSA.
Andy was formerly Chief Economist at the Bank of England and a member of the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee. Among other positions, he is Honorary Professor at the Universities of Nottingham, Manchester and Exeter, Visiting Professor at King's College, London, a Visiting Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford and a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Academy of Social Sciences. Andrew is Founder and President of the charity Pro Bono Economics, Vice-Chair of the charity National Numeracy and Chair of the National Numeracy Leadership Council. Andrew was the Permanent Secretary for Levelling Up at the Cabinet Office from September 2021 to March 2022 and chairs the Government's Levelling Up Advisory Council. He has authored around 200 articles and 4 books.
In this essay, RSA CEO Andy Haldane focuses on several issues in the white paper that are central to the success of the levelling up programme.
RSA CEO Andy Haldane speaks at the Bradford Literature Festival
Fellowship news 28 Jun 2022 RSA chief exec Andy Haldane gave the inaugural Bradford Literature Festival Culture Sector Lecture at the University of Bradford on Friday 24 June 2022.
Anna is a Librarian.
Anna works in the Fellows' Library ensuring that the Library runs smoothly. Anna is responsible for helping Fellows with their enquiries and dealing with book orders and journal subscriptions.
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- Head of Innovation and Change
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- Historian
- Historian in Residence
Anton is the RSA's Historian in Residence.
Expertise: RSA history
Anton has written a book of the history of the RSA, from its founding to the present day. He was previously a lecturer in Economic History at King's College London. Anton completed his PhD on inventors of the British Industrial Revolution at King's College London and a post-doc at Brown University.
The RSA historian-in-residence on 260 years of work to benefit the public as "the nation's improvement agency."
The RSA's Historian in Residence Anton Howes explains how an RSA competition got the landed aristocracy to plant 60 million trees
Ash Prashar FRSA sets out some the reforms to the criminal justice systems on both side of the Atlantic
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- Head of News and Public Affairs
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- Fellowship Areas and Engagement Manager ( Central )
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- Fellowship Areas and Engagement Manager ( London )
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- Designer
- Member of the RSA US Board of Trustees
- Member of the RSA US Team
- Designer and Educator
Charlie Cannon is a designer and educator based in Providence, Rhode Island where he is a professor at the Rhode Island School of Design.
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- Member of the RSA US Board of Trustees
- Board President, RSA US
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- US Staff Member
- Senior Community Manager
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- Senior Service and Systems Designer
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- Cleaning and Maintenance Assistant
David is a Cleaning and Maintenance Assistant.
Dave has been working at the RSA since 2019 and is a member of the Facilities team. His role includes assisting external suppliers and contractors when on site, keeping up the high standards of cleaning within the house and carrying out general maintenance tasks.
Prior to joining the RSA, he was employed by Knight Frank as a caretaker of a large estate which he looked after mainly alone. Dave's free time is taken up by research into the true possibility of living ‘off-grid'. He also enjoys cooking and baking.
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- Dean Is Our Digital Content Manager
- Digital Content Manager
Having worked as a content specialist for several different organisations including EE, Xbox, UCL, Which? and most recently The King's Fund, Dean is bringing a breadth of knowledge and experience to support us in our digital output. Dean has a first-class BA in Journalism from Southampton Solent University.
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- Digital Marketing Officer ( Family Leave )
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- Senior Global Manager / Human Resources
Devlyn is our Senior Global Manager
Devlyn is responsible for developing the RSA's strategic partnerships to support the growth of our global portfolio of interventions. He also manages our global partnership network, coordinates with RSA Affiliates in North America and Oceania, and secures funding for RSA's international programme of work. Prior to joining the RSA, he worked as a consultant for an international market research consultancy then co-founded and led a successful technology start-up.
Devlyn has his B.PAPM from Carleton University in Canada where his final year research on Millennial recruitment and retention strategy was included as part of the Government of Canada's modernisation plan, Blueprint 2020, and earned him a place on the Clerk of the Privy Council's Advisory Council.
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- Member of the RSA US Board of Trustees
- Member of the RSA US Team
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- Associate
- Designer
- US Staff Member
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- Head of Fellowship Engagement ( Joint )
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- Head of Archive / Business Development and Partnerships
- Professional Archivist
Eve is Head of Archive.
Eve joined in October 2011 as an interim archivist. She has an MA in Archival studies and in May 2012 was appointed Head of Archive, a lone archivist role. A full-time assistant archivist was appointed in 2019 and the archive now works with a team of both internal and external volunteers.
As a professional archivist Eve has worked across most archive sectors from moving images at the BFI National Archive, is a silent and nitrate film specialist, worked at the Amsterdam EYE Filmmuseum and their archive in Overveen, Holland, television news at ITN Source video archive, BP corporate archive, and prior to RSA setting up the archive and catalogue for Living Archive a community, oral history and performance archive.
Eve is responsible for the day-to-day management and archival practices of the RSA archive, answering research and general enquiries, arranging and facilitating RSA House and archive tours. She works in collaboration with ‘Facilities' managing two temperature-controlled archive strongrooms, involving archival storage and conservation of existing physical artefacts and records. Collecting, collating, appraising and accessioning current physical and digital records for future acquisition into the archive and inclusion into the archive's online catalogue and digital repository.
Outside of work, Eve's passions are cinema, art, music, football, and family, although not necessarily in that order.
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- Senior Business Development and Partnerships Manager
Fabian is Foresight Lead.
Fabian is currently Foresight Lead at the RSA where he focuses on designing new participatory approaches that support a diverse range of citizens to imagine and shape better futures.
Fabian is particularly interested in how technology and the shift to net zero will transform jobs and the wider economy and his research on these topics has been featured in the Financial Times, Guardian and World Economic Forum. In 2019 he developed the RSA's four scenarios for the future of work in 2035, which have since been turned into a speculative exhibition of artefacts and collection of short stories. He has also designed and hosted a series of future of work labs, which use these scenarios to explore future opportunities and challenges for different sectors and local economies, and co-develop new innovations with employers and policy makers.
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- Member of the RSA US Board of Trustees
- President and CEO of the Forbes Funds
- President and CEO, the Forbes Fund
Fred Brown is President and CEO of The Forbes Funds, a philanthropic organisation focused on strengthening the management capacity and impact of community nonprofits in the Pittsburgh area.
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- Fellowship Development Coordinator
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- Junior Audio - Visual Events and IT Support Technician
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- Senior Maintenance Assistant
George is a Senior Maintenance Assistant.
George has been working at the RSA as a member of the Facilities team since 1996 where he feels honoured to look after the building, ensuring it is up to high standards of decoration and maintenance. He also assists external contractors when they visit and always takes the opportunity to learn from them.
George has served for 26 years in the Reserve Army. He is a Sergeant in the QMS department where he works to ensure troops have everything, they need such as food and water. This takes up most of his social time, but he continues to find time for holidays with his family.
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- Experience and Lifecycle Manager
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- Senior Business Operations Manager
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- Fellowship Services Coordinator
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- Head of Policy and Participation
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- Policy Engagement Manager
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- Business Development Coordinator
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- Marketing and Communications Officer
Jess manages our Commercial Programmes & Coffee House Guest Relations
Jess joined us in 2023 and manages our Commercial Programmes here at RSA House cultivating a mixed programme of events, including food, drink, art, health, well-being & entertainment, to generate interaction from our Fellows and the wider community. She is also a key part of the coffee house, where she is a regular presence, chatting to users of the spaces as well as working closely with the fellowship department.
Jess's background for the past couple of years has been in the brewery industry, working for an independent brewing company managing events & booking at a larger venue. Prior to that Jess worked for a non-for profit company managing a busy calendar of events and courses.
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- Fellowship Areas and Engagement Manager ( South East )
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- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
- Director of Design & Innovation
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- Senior Quantitative Researcher
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- Fellowship Coordinator ( Operations )
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- Fellowship Areas and Engagement Manager ( South West and Wales )
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- Senior Finance Business Partner
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- Executive and Governance Assistant
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- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
- Director of Research and Learning
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- Senior Fellowship Development Manager
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- Area Communications Coordinator
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- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
- Director of Fellowship
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- Senior IT Support Analyst
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- Senior Resource and Traffic Manager
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- Joint Head of Public Events Programme
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- Research and Learning Coordinator
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- Director of Finance
- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
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- Senior Fellowship Services Manager
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- Chairman of the Board, RSA Oceania
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- Public Events Programme Coordinator / Research and Learning
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- Marketing and Communications Officer
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- Senior Participation Researcher
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- Fellowship Areas and Engagement Manager ( North of England, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland )
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- Digital Officer / Facilities
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- Fellowship Development Coordinator
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- Fellowship Areas and Engagement Manager ( South East ) Finance
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- Internal Communications Manager / CEO
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- Senior Delivery Manager / Design and Innovation
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- Social Media and Content Designer
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- Personal Assistant to CEO
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- Chief Operating Officer
- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
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- US Staff Member
- Director of Policy & Innovation
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- Member of the RSA US Board of Trustees
- Chairman of the Board, RSA US
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- Head of Commercial Partnerships and Business Development / Business Operations
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- Fellowship Services Coordinator
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- Senior Data and Insights Analyst
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- Brand and Operations Coordinator / Public Events
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- Head of Enterprise Design ( Sabbatical )
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- Chief of Staff
- Member of the RSA US Board of Trustees
- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
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- US Staff Member
- Operations Lead
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- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
- Director of Content and Communications
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- Technology Manager / Media and Communications