Research Fellows
Shaun Bailey
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Shaun Bailey |
Shaun Bailey runs MyGeneration, a charity that helps disaffected and drug-addicted young people on the North Kensington estates where he was born and still lives. He is the author of No Man's Land (Centre for Policy Studies, 2005); is the Conservative Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Hammersmith; and is a frequent commentator on youth, crime and drug issues for the national press and broadcast media.
Keith Boyfield
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Keith Boyfield |
Keith Boyfield is a leading economist and writer who specialises in marketing, competition and regulatory policy. He runs a City consultancy
www.Keith Boyfield Associates.com advising multinational companies, non profit organisations and media groups. He has also served as a consultant to the European Commission, having recently contributed to a major study on airport policy. For the CPS Keith has written several publications on competition policy and regulatory issues, most recently
RIA's: Why don’t they work? Keith contributes regularly to leading national and international daily newspapers and monthly magazines including The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal Europe and Acquisitions Monthly. His forthcoming study on ‘Global Insurance & The Capital Markets’ will be published by International Financial Review (IFR), published by Thomson Financial. He is a Director of Leriba Risk Services, a company based in Johannesburg, which he co-founded with Buchizya Mseteka, a former Reuters correspondent in Kenya and Tanzania, and Jonathan Clayton, The Times correspondent in Africa
http://www.leribarisk.com
Tom Burkard
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Tom Burkard |
Tom Burkard is the Director of The Promethean Trust, a Norwich-based charity for dyslexic children and the author of Inside the Secret Garden: the progressive decay of liberal education (University of Buckingham Press, 2007). His main academic interest is the interface between reading theory and classroom practice, and he has written numerous articles for academic journals and the press. He contributed to the Daily Telegraph Good Schools guide and is the co-author of the Sound Foundations reading and spelling programmes, which are rapidly gaining recognition as the most cost-effective means of preventing reading failure. He is the author of (with Martin Turner)
Reading Fever: Why phonics must come first (Centre for Policy Studies, 1996),
The End of Illiteracy? The Holy Grail of Clackmannanshire (CPS, 1999),
After the Literacy Hour: may be the best plan win (CPS, 2004) and
A World First for West Dunbartonshire (CPS, 2006). He is a member of the NAS/UWT.
Alistair Craig
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Alistair Craig |
Alistair was educated at Glasgow and Strasbourg Universities and graduated with a degree in Law. He is now an assistant director with a large City professional services firm where he advises corporate clients on international tax. Alistair stood as the Conservative candidate in Greenwich & Woolwich at the 2005 General Election and advises the Conservative Shadow Treasury team in relation to tax. His publications include
EU Law and British Tax - which comes first? (CPS, 2003) and
Reforming the Private Finance Initiative (with Philippa Roe) (CPS, 2004).
Janet Daley
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Janet Daley |
Janet Daley spent twenty years in academic life, teaching philosophy at the Open University, the external department of London University, and the Royal College of Art. She wrote art and literary criticism from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. She left teaching to become a full-time journalist in 1987 writing for the The Times, The Independent, The Sunday Telegraph, The Spectator, etc., and joined The Independent as a columnist in 1989. She went to The Times as columnist and leader writer in 1990 where she stayed until 1996, when she joined The Daily Telegraph as a columnist and leader writer (until February 2005). She then wrote for The Times, The Sunday Times, and the Mail on Sunday, before returning to The Daily Telegraph. A recent publication for the Centre for Policy Studies by her is
Seeking Common Ground.
Charlie Elphicke
Charlie Elphicke is a tax partner at a leading global law firm and a Research Fellow of the CPS. He is a member of the Corporation Tax Sub Committee of the Law Society’s Revenue Law Committee. He is the author of Ending Pensioner Poverty (CPS, 2003); SAINTS can get Britain saving again (CPS, 2005); with William Norton, The Case for Reducing Business Taxes (CPS, 2006); The tax double whammy: more tax costs more than you think (CPS, 2006); and Robin Hood or Sheriff of Nottingham? Winners and losers from tax and benefit reform over the last 10 years (CPS, 2006).
Kathy Gyngell
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Kathy Gyngell |
Kathy has a first class honours degree in social anthropology from Cambridge and an Oxford M.Phil. in sociology. She has worked for the former ITV companies, LWT and TV-am as a producer and senior programme executive. A full time mother after the birth of her second son, she founded the voluntary organization Full Time Mothers. In 1999 she and David Keighley set up Minotaur Media Tracking, the precursor to Newswatch, the independent broadcast media monitoring service of which she is an associate director. She has jointly authored three papers for the Centre for Policy Studies on broadcast issues –
An Outbreak of Narcolepsy, Blair’s EU Turn and most recently
BBC Bias? She was also instrumental in preparing Shaun Bailey’s pamphlet for the CPS,
No Man’s Land: how Britain’s inner city youth are being failed and co authored with Ray Lewis,
From Latchkey to Leadership: Channelling the Talents of Inner City Youth. She chaired and authored the
Addictions Reports of the Social Justice Policy Review for the Conservative Party, published in Breakdown Britain in December 2006 and Breakthrough Britain in July 2007. She is chair of the newly formed Addictions Policy Forum at the CPS. .
Daniel Kruger
Daniel Kruger has worked in the Conservative Party Policy Unit since January 2004. His responsibilities have included healthcare, education and criminal justice policy. From 2001 to 2003 he was Director of Studies at the Centre for Policy Studies. He has been a leader-writer at the Daily Telegraph and a contributor to the Spectator magazine. He has an M.A. from Edinburgh University and a Ph.D. in 18th century British political history from Oxford University.
Dan Lewis
AREAS OF EXPERTISE for media broadcasting and comment: Energy Policy, Alternative Energy, Popular Economics, The National Lottery, Government Efficiency and Quangos. Dan Lewis is Research Director of the Economic Research Council and contributes regularly to the Media as a Journalist and Broadcaster. He is Founder of AEI www.altenergyinvestor.org - the global resource bank for the Alternative Energy Investor, sponsored by Guinness Atkinson Asset Management. Dan Lewis has contributed to amongst others, The Daily Telegraph, the Wall Street Journal Europe, The Yorkshire Post, European CEO, World Finance and Power Engineer Magazines. He has also spoken on many radio and TV programmes including Radio 4's The Today Programme, Sky News, BBC World Service and 5 live as well as BBC News 24 TV. His publications include "Recharging The Nation - The Challenge and Cost of Increasing Renewable Electricity" (2003 for the Economic Research Council), "The Essential Guide to British Quangos 2005"(CPS and ERC 2005) and "The Larceny of the Lottery" (CPS with Ruth Lea 2006). For more information, please see his website www.danlewis.org .
Tony Lodge
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Tony Lodge |
Tony Lodge is a political and energy analyst. He is a former Editor of the
European Journal and a former Chief of Staff to the Shadow Attorney General and Shadow Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs. He has written regularly in the national media and appeared on national TV and radio covering energy policy issues and his publications include
Electrifying Britain – Forward with Coal, Gas and Nuclear, published by the Economic Research Council (2005),
Clean Coal – A Clean, Secure and Affordable Alternative published by the
Centre for Policy Studies (2007) and All Hot Air - Labour's Failed Strategy on Fuel Poverty published by
The Bow Group (2008). His areas of expertise include clean coal technology, energy and environment policy and the European Union. He is a frequent commentator on energy policy and the case for security of supply and a sustainable energy system.
David Martin
David Martin enjoyed a career spanning 23 years as a tax lawyer within a large City Law Firm, latterly as Head of the Tax Department, before taking early retirement in 2002. During that time he advised both company and individual clients. He now lives a less pressurised life in Devon with his wife and two daughters and maintains an active interest in tax law. He is a member of the Tax Law Review Committee of the Institute of Fiscal Studies, for which he was the co-author of two recently published papers. His publications for the centre include Tax Simplification and An Overview of the Flat Tax.
Martin McElwee
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Martin McElwee |
Martin McElwee is a former Deputy Editor at the
Centre for Policy Studies. He has also been head of research at the
Bow Group and editor of their journal,
Crossbow. He is currently a member of the
Institute of Economic Affairs' Shadow Regulatory Policy Committee and stood as the Conservative candidate in Leicester South in the 2005 general election. He has first class degrees in law at BA and LL.M levels from Cambridge University. His publications include
The Great and Good (CPS),
Leviathan at Large (with Andrew Tyrie MP) (CPS),
Mr Blair's Legacy: the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill (CPS), A-Levels: Choosing the Best (Bow Group) and The Guardian of the Airwaves (C-Change); he has also written for a number of national and international newspapers. He is currently an antitrust lawyer at
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and also provides pro bono legal advice at
Merton Citizens Advice Bureau. (C-Change). (C-Change).
Harriet Sergeant
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Harriet Sergeant |
Harriet Sergeant is the author of the widely-acclaimed
Managing not to Manage: Management in the NHS,
Welcome to the Asylum: immigration and asylum in the UK,
No System to Abuse: immigration and healthcare in the UK and
Handle with Care - all published by the CPS. She has also written three books:
Between the Lines: Conversations in South Africa describes the effect of apartheid on some of its inhabitants in the 1980s.
Shanghai is the history of the world's most international city between 1927 and 1939.
The Old Sow in the Back Room recounts her experiences of Tokyo where she stayed for seven years. She has written for numerous newspapers and magazines in the UK and abroad.
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