People
- Staff
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- Advisory Board
Phillip Blond, Director
phillip.blond@respublica.org.uk
Phillip Blond is director of ResPublica, and a research fellow at NESTA. Phillip is an internationally recognised political thinker, and economic and cultural commentator. He has recently published a number of comment and analysis pieces in The Financial Times, The Independent, The Guardian, Prospect Magazine and The Sunday Times. His work has attracted considerable attention as an advocate of a radical, progressive Toryism. Prospect named him as the British thinker to watch in 2009, and The Times called his book 'Red Tory', which was published in March 2010, one of the highlights of the year to come.
Asheem Singh, Deputy Director
asheem.singh@respublica.org.uk
Asheem Singh is deputy director of ResPublica. 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. His authored or accredited publications include 'The Venture Society' (2010), 'Dynamic Benefits: Towards Welfare that Works' (2009), 'Housing Poverty: From Social Breakdown to Social Mobility' (2008) and 'The Global Political Monitor' (2007). In 2008 he was a policy aide to Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, and from 2008-10 he was a policy adviser to Nick Hurd MP, Minister for Civil Society. His research interests lie in social investment and civil society, the arts, technological and democratic innovation, and he sits on the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's Poverty Strategy Group.
Romilly Dennys, Fundraiser
romilly.dennys@respublica.org.uk
Romilly Dennys is the fundraiser at ResPublica. She has previously worked at Diabetes UK and Independent Age and has experience of facilitating African-European parliamentary dialogue and keeping Africa high on the political agenda in Europe. She is a graduate of University of Newcastle with degree in Geography, Spanish & Politics.
Sandra Gruescu, Senior Researcher
sandra.gruescu@respublica.org.uk
Sandra Gruescu PhD is a senior researcher at ResPublica. She previously worked as a senior research fellow at the Social Market Foundation. Before that, Sandra worked extensively in public policy research and consultancy, especially in the areas of pension policy and family policy for the German government. The ground-breaking new set of family policy provisions introduced in Germany in January 2007 is based on a report that Sandra co-authored with the then Chairman of the German Council of Economic Experts, Prof. Dr. Bert Rürup. Sandra’s research interests cover a wide range of social policy areas such as social capital, behavioural economics in social policy, pensions and savings behaviour, and family-friendly policies.
Caroline MacFarland, Business and Events Manager
caroline.macfarland@respublica.org.uk
Caroline MacFarland is the business and events manager at ResPublica. She has previously worked in communications and public relations consultancies. Caroline studied Politics and Sociology at the University of York and the University of Copenhagen, where she was actively engaged in student union politics and community engagement projects.
Caroline joined ResPublica in November 2009. In her role as business and events manager she looks after our partnerships and engagement with other organisations, and manages the events programme which encompasses our public events, party conference fringe programme and private dinners.
Kim Mandeng, Researcher
Kim Mandeng is a researcher at ResPublica. Previously, Kim has worked as the northern Europe editor for the citizen-journalism website Demotix and the deputy director of The Next Step Foundation. She has also worked as a Parliamentary Assistant and as a graduate trainee for PoliticsHome. She is a graduate of the London School of Economics, where she obtained her MSc in Comparative Politics and her BA in Social Anthropology.
Alison Meldrum, Executive Assistant
alison.meldrum@respublica.org.uk
Alison Meldrum is the executive assistant at Res Publica. She recently returned to the UK following more than two decades living in New York, Barcelona and Auckland, where she held a variety of administrative and supervisory roles in organisations ranging from NGOs and professional associations to management consultancy and public broadcasting. She has an M.A. in History from the University of Edinburgh and qualifications in Spanish and Catalan from Barcelona’s Universitat Autònoma.
Dwayne Menezes, Research Assistant
dwayne.menezes@respublica.org.uk
Dwayne Menezes is a research assistant at ResPublica. He is also a PhD candidate in the Department of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Originally from India, Dwayne graduated from the University of Mumbai with a MA in History and St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, with a Bachelor of Management Studies. Previously, he had been the founding director of a leadership and management consultancy in the UK and the director for youth development at a community development charity in India. His research interests lie in the strengthening of civil society, the protection of civil liberties, the integration of ethnic minorities, religion in the public sphere and the welfare of children and families.
Samuel Middleton, Researcher
samuel.middleton@respublica.org.uk
Samuel Middleton is a researcher at ResPublica and organised its launch event in Whitehall in November 2009. His interests lie in social enterprise, strategic communications, group psychology and the impact of technology and social media on the communications landscape and beyond. Samuel graduated from University College London with a Masters Degree in Modern History and Russian Literature.
Adam Schoenborn, Senior Researcher
adam.schoenborn@respublica.org.uk
Adam Schoenborn is a senior researcher for ResPublica and the author of 'A Force to be Reckoned With', a Centre for Social Justice report on re-establishing traditional forms of policing by consent and local policing in England and Wales. More recently, he served as lead researcher for ResPublica's flagship report on public sector reform, 'The Ownership State.' His primary research interest lies in localism as a means of delivering poverty alleviation, civic engagement and public service reform.
