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.