Fellows

If you would like to contact any of our fellows please call Reception on 020 8980 6263 or email reception@youngfoundation.org.

Alasdair Liddell

Alasdair is a consultant on innovation in the NHS.

Alessandra Buonfino

Alessandra is Head of UK Government Affairs at Tesco plc.

Andrea Coleman

Andrea Coleman was a Director heading the Young Foundation's Youth Transitions and International practice areas.

Belinda Brown

Belinda's research lies in those issues linking extended families with the changing role of the state.

Charles Leadbeater

Charles is a leading authority on innovation and creativity and has advised companies, cities and governments on innovation strategy.

Elaine Bauer

Elaine is an anthropologist, was born in Jamaica and graduated from the University of Guelph, Canada.

Geoff Dench

Geoff has written widely on gender roles and is currently working on the role of grandparents and the concept of meritocracy.

H.A. Hellyer

Dr H.A. Hellyer is Director of the Visionary Consultants Group, a West-Muslim World relations consultancy.

Jim Ogg

Jim is a social anthropologist.

Jitinder Kohli

Jitinder is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress in Washington DC.

John Thackara

John is the director of Doors of Perception, (Doors), a global design network.

Kate Gavron

Kate has been associated with the Institute of Community Studies and the Mutual Aid Centre since 1992.

Kathy Pain

Kathy's research interests are focused on inter-city relations and economic development in contemporary globalization.

Kirsteen Tait

Kirsteen Tait advises the Paul Hamlyn Foundation on its Supported Options Fund for young undocumented migrants which she helped to set up under their Social Welfare programme.

Mary Abdo

Mary is a former Young Foundation staff member living in Mumbai, India. She continues to work in the social innovation space.

Paul Barker

Paul is a writer, broadcaster and the former Editor of the social affairs magazine New Society.

Paul Thompson

Paul is a social historian and sociologist, he is internationally recognised as a pioneer of the use of oral history and life story interviews in social research.

Peter Hall

Professor Sir Peter Hall is Professor of Planning at the Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, University College.

Robin Murray

Robin is an industrial economist and worked on the Methods project.

Roger Graef

Roger is a criminologist and one of Britain's leading television documentary-makers.

Sean Carey

Sean studied sociology and social anthropology and has written on several Hindu religious movements in the UK as well as the Bangladeshi, Indian and Pakistani communities in the East End of London.