Asheem Singh
Asheem Singh was deputy director of ResPublica and the Head of ResPublica's Civil Society and Social Innovation Unit from December 2009-April 2011. Originally from the North East of England, he was the David Blank scholar in Law at St Catherine's College, University of Oxford, before receiving a scholarship to study for an MA in Creative Writing at the UEA. He has written widely on political and cultural matters and his authored publications at ResPublica include 'The Civil Effect,' 'Digital Giving (with Samuel Middleton) and 'The Venture Society' (all 2010); the influential 'Dynamic Benefits: Towards Welfare that Works' (Centre for Social Justice, 2009); and 'The Global Political Monitor' (Policy Exchange, 2008). In 2008 he was a policy aide to Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, and from 2008-10 he was a senior policy adviser to Nick Hurd MP, Minister for Civil Society. His research interests lie in innovation and industrial policy, job creation and enterprise, civil society, cultural policy and the arts, development studies, social technology and behaviour change. He sits on the advisory board of the Conservative Environment Network and on the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's Poverty Strategy Group.