Advisory board
What is an advisory board?
The CEC benefitted from a high quality advisory board comprised of individuals with significant experience and expertise in one or more aspects of the project, including on democratic innovation, economic policymaking and research. The board represented a range of views and perspectives relevant to the topics being discussed and was consulted at key project milestones to ensure that participants in the CEC had access to high-quality and appropriately balanced information upon which to deliberate.
Arun Advani
Associate Professor in the Economics Department at the University of Warwick
Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies
Carolina Alves
Associate Professor at UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
Co-Founder of Diversifying and Decolonising Economics
Robert Chote
Chair of the UK Statistics Authority
Former Chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility
Former Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies
Oliver Escobar
Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Edinburgh University
Academic Lead for Democratic Innovation at Edinburgh Futures Institute
Chris Giles
Financial Times Economics Editor
Adam Hawksbee
Onward Deputy Director
Will Jennings
Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Southampton University
Co-Founder of The Centre for Towns
Julian Jessop
Independent economist
Lindsay Judge
Research Director at Resolution Foundation
James Meadway
Director of the Progressive Economy Forum
Former Chief Economist at the New Economics Foundation
John Narayan
Senior Lecturer in European and International Studies, King’s College London
Chair of the Institute of Race Relations
Özlem Onaran
Professor of Economics at the University of Greenwich, University of Greenwich
Director of the Greenwich Political Economy Research Centre
Ann Phoenix
Professor of Psychosocial Studies at the Institute of Education, University College London
Former Co-Director of the Thomas Coram Research Unit
Jonathan Portes
Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the School of Politics & Economics, King's College, London
Senior fellow at UK in a Changing Europe
Former Chief Economist at the Cabinet Office
Mary-Ann Stephenson
Director of Women’s Budget Group
Geoff Tily
Senior Economist at the Trades Union Congress
Jan Toporowski
Professor of Economics and Finance, SOAS University
Fiona Weir
Chief Executive of the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust
Core team
This project was run in partnership between King’s College London and Ipsos. The team has a strong track record on public engagement on economic issues and a wealth of experience running deliberative projects. You can find out more about the first Citizens’ Economic Council event, which took place in 2017-18, and read the final project report.
Christopher Holmes
Project director
Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy, King’s College London
Reema Patel
Project Manager
Research Director (Head of Deliberative Engagement), Ipsos
Morwenna Byford
Assistant Project Manager
Research Manager, Ipsos
Kate Mesher
Assistant Project Manager
Research Executive, Ipsos
Yaron Golan
Research Assistant
PhD Candidate, Manchester Metropolitan University
Project funders
Primary funding for this project came from two independent charitable foundations – Friends Provident Foundation and Barrow Cadbury Trust – both of which share an interest in new economic thinking and strengthening the ability of citizen voice to inform policy.
