Maurice Saatchi graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1967 with First Class Honours in Economics. He won the MacMillan Prize for Sociology in that year. He was the co-founder of Saatchi & Saatchi and is now a partner in M&C Saatchi. He is a Governor of the London School of Economics and a Director of the Centre for Policy Studies. He is the author of The War of Independence, 1999; Happiness Can’t Buy Money, 1999; The Bad Samaritan, 2000; Poor People! Stop Paying Tax!, 2001; The Science of Politics, 2001; If this is Conservatism, I am a Conservative, 2005, and In Praise of Ideology, 2006, The Sleeping Beauty of America in 2007 and most recently The Myth of Inflation Targeting, 2009. He was elevated to the peerage in 1996. He served on the Conservative Front Bench in the House of Lords as Shadow Minister for the Treasury and the Cabinet Office between 1999 and 2003. He joined the Shadow Cabinet as Co-Chairman of the Conservative Party from 2003 to 2005.
Jill Kirby was appointed Director of the Centre for Policy Studies in 2007, having chaired the Centre’s family and welfare policy group for six years. A writer and policy analyst, her CPS publications include Choosing to be Different: women, work and the family (2003); The Price of Parenthood (2005); The Nationalisation of Childhood (2006), Who Do They Think We Are (2008), What's Wrong with 50p (2009) and The Reality Gap (2009). Topics she has covered include taxation; welfare reform; childcare and early education; women and work; pensions; fertility and demography.
She has also written on privacy and data-sharing, examining the balance of the relationship between the individual and the State. From 2005 to 2006 Jill served on the Tax Reform Commission, appointed by Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne to advise the Conservative Party on the case for a flatter, fairer tax system. From 2001 to 2003 she was a Consultant to Renewing One Nation, the social affairs unit at Conservative Central Office, and a member of the Conservative Women’s Manifesto Group. Jill is a contributor to the national press, with articles appearing in The Times and Sunday Times and The Daily Telegraph and is frequently interviewed on the BBC and other national and local broadcast media. She also blogs regularly on CentreRight and occasionally at the Spectator's Coffee House. A graduate of Bristol University, she qualified as a solicitor in 1981 and practised in a leading City law firm as a specialist in commercial litigation and employment law.
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