Alessandra Buonfino is Head of UK Government Affairs for Tesco plc. She was previously a Programme Leader at the Young Foundation, (having joined at its inception), and is an Associate of Demos.

Alveena was Director of the UpRising Leadership Programme and left the Young Foundation in August 2012, she is currently an Adviser to the programme. Previously Alveena was Principal Associate at the Institute for Community Cohesion (iCoCo) with lead responsibility on Education and Cohesion policy and Intercultural Dialogue. She liaised with national, local government and schools… Read more »

Andrea Coleman was a Director heading the Young Foundation’s Youth Transitions and International practice areas. Among her projects was leading the design and launch of a global innovation academy to build the skills and capacity needed for fast and effective innovation to meet social needs. Andrea has worked for more than fifteen years in the… Read more »

Anton works at the Centre for Justice Innovation. Anton was a Programme Leader at the Young Foundation and led the Innovation, Justice and Youth programme. Before joining the Young Foundation in 2007 Anton worked at the International Centre for Prison Studies at King’s College, London, where he led the Centre’s work on Prison Healthcare and… Read more »

Belinda Brown studied Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics and then Sociology and Politics at the Central European University in Warsaw. While living in Warsaw (1991- 1996) she carried out research on the development of the Underground movement in the 1980s. The latter became the subject of her Masters thesis “The Public Importance… Read more »

Charles Leadbeater is a leading authority on innovation and creativity. He has advised companies, cities and governments around the world on innovation strategy and drawn on that experience in writing his latest book We-think: the power of mass creativity, which charts the rise of mass, participative approaches to innovation from science and open source software,… Read more »

David is an experienced analyst and researcher in public policy. He is currently the co-founder and Director of Belmana which delivers research and analysis to a range of public sector organisations. Prior to founding Belmana, David was Director of Research and Analysis in the Audit Commission where he led influential research projects on diverse topics… Read more »

Elaine, an anthropologist, was born in Jamaica, migrated to Canada as a teenager, and now lives in England. She is a graduate of the University of Guelph, where she undertook research on Black-White Mixed Relationships in Canada (1997-2001). She has also conducted joint research with Paul Thompson on Jamaican Transnational Families, which was supported from… Read more »

Geoff studied Archaeology & Anthropology at Cambridge and then for a PhD in Social Institutions at the LSE. He first worked at the Institute of Community Studies as research assistant in 1962. He went on to become Professor of Sociology at Middlesex University before rejoining us as research associate in 1992 and research fellow in… Read more »

H. A. Hellyer, Ph.D., is a Senior Practice Consultant and Senior Analyst for the Abu Dhabi Gallup Center and the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies. Dr Hellyer was previously a Fellow at the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution and was nominated as Deputy Convenor of the U.K. government’s Home Office working… Read more »