Dan Lewis – Chief Executive

Dan contributes frequently to the media, both as a journalist and broadcaster. These media outlets include LBC’s Breakfast Show with Nick Ferrari, the Daily Telegraph, Al-Jazeera, Wall Street Journal, BBC Radio 4, Sky News, World Finance Magazine and the Yorkshire Post.

Dan’s publications over the years include; Recharging The Nation – The Challenge and Cost of Renewable Electricity Generation (2003), The Essential Guide to British Quangos 2005 , The Larcenty of the Lottery (2007), and the Digest of Energy Statistics 2008 .

Dan has also edited the following publications;

Electrifying Britain – forward with Coal, Gas or Nuclear? (2005), The New Economics of Energy Security (2006), Cost-Effective Defence (2006), Creative Destruction in the Music Industry – The Way Ahead (2006), Cracks in the Foundations? A Review of the Role and Functions of fhe Bank of England after TenYears of Operational Independence (2007), Playing with Monetary Fire (2007), New Nuclear Build in the UK – The Criteria for Delivery (2008), The Digest of Energy Statistics 2008 and The Essential Guide to EU Quangos 2009

Since graduating in 1994 in Modern Languages and History, Dan worked in financial organisations in the City of London and lived and worked in Luxembourg for four years until 2001. After this period Dan got more and more involved in consulting to policymakers, institutional investors and businesses and researching for the think tanks, the Economic Research Council and the Centre for Policy Studies.

An energy expert, Dan is also CEO of another company, Future Energy Strategies www.future-es.com – an energy reporting company that researches the energy industry of tomorrow.

Dr Tim Evans – Chairman

Dr. Tim Evans is Chairman of the Economic Policy Centre, Chairman of Global Health Futures Ltd, a Consultant Director with the Adam Smith Institute, Managing Director of Farsight SPI Ltd and a Senior Fellow with the Centre for the New Europe and President of the Libertarian Alliance.

A former President and Director General of the Centre for the New Europe (2002-2005), between 1993 and early 2002 he was the Executive Director of Public Affairs at the Independent Healthcare Association in London where he oversaw the political affairs and public relations of the UK’s independent health and social care providers. In this role he was widely credited as being the major driving force behind the 2000 Concordat which was described by the Financial Times as the most “historic deal in 50 years of British healthcare”.

Prior to that, in 1991-1992, he was the Chief Economic and Political Adviser to the Slovak Prime Minister – Dr. Jan Carnogursky – and was Head of the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit. In the late 1980s he was the Assistant Director of the Foundation for Defence Studies and subsequently became a Senior Policy Consultant at the Adam Smith Institute.

In 1993 he was awarded his PhD from the London School of Economics. A political sociologist specialising in economics, he has taught at a number of academic institutions over the years including teaching post-graduate students Social Policy at London’s Guildhall University and the Economics and Politics of the Future on the Strategic Command Course of Britain’s national Police Staff College at Bramshill. In early 2007 he was honoured by being elected a member of the Mont Pelerin Society: the prestigious society for the world’s leading 500 market-oriented economists, thinkers and business leaders.

A regular commentator on television and radio, his articles have appeared in the Economist, Financial Times and Wall Street Journal Europe as well as a host of other outlets around the world. The author of numerous books, monographs and articles he has also been published by think tanks that amongst others include the Fabian Society, Institute of Economic Affairs, Fraser Institute and the Heritage Foundation.

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Senior Fellows

Professor Forrest Capie

After working as an accountant for Ford Motor Company and as a civil servant in the Department of Trade and Industry in New Zealand, Professor Capie read economics and economic history at the University of Auckland and the London School of Economics. Amongst many books, he has written ‘Depression and Protectionism‘ and was co-author of ‘The Inter-War British Economy‘. He has also written papers on monetary and trade history and was editor of The Economic History Review from 1992-1999. He served on the Shadow Chancellor’s advisory council from 1999 to 2004, and on the Shadow Monetary Policy Committee from 2002 to 2004. Today, as well as being the Professor (Emeritus) of Economic History at the Cass Business School, Forrest is the Official Historian of the Bank of England for whom he is currently writing the next instalment in the history of the BoE.

David Kern

David Kern is Chief Economist at the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC). He is
also running his own independent macro-economic consultancy, Kern Consulting. David Kern comments on behalf of the BCC on economic policy issues, and his comments are quoted regularly in the media and the financial press. As Chief Economist, David Kern is responsible for preparing the BCC’s economic forecasts, and is closely involved in the analysis and presentation of the BCC’s Quarterly Economic Survey (QES). Before setting up in 2000 his independent macro-economic consultancy, David Kern was for more than 17 years NatWest Group’s Chief Economist and Head of the Bank’s Market Intelligence Department. As part of his work at NatWest, he was responsible for the economic and financial forecasts used in the bank’s strategic planning, and for NatWest’s economic work on country and credit risk assessment.
In his consultancy work, David Kern provides tailor-made consultancy and advice to clients on a wide range of economic issues. He focuses on global & UK economic forecasts, monetary policy, the currency markets, interest rates, the bond markets, country & credit risk assessment, and UK regional developments. David Kern speaks regularly on economic issues at professional gatherings, and he contributes frequently articles to leading professional journals. David Kern holds an M.Sc. (Econ) from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA).

Dr Tim Leunig -

Tim is a Reader in Economic History at the London School of Economics where he teaches and lectures in 19th- and 20th-century economic history. He has advised government, parliament and all three of Britain’s main political parties.  Tim was awarded an LSE teaching prize in 2006 and in 2002 and was the first person at LSE to be awarded two teaching prizes. His fields of expertise include; the effects of new technology on productivity in Britain, 1800-2000, Links between learning-by-doing, labour turnover and labour productivity, the effects of industrial structure on the British cotton industry, the determinants of heights in Britain, the performance of railways in Britain, 1840-2009 and last but by no means least, economic geography.

Corin Taylor -

Corin is a Senior Policy Adviser at the Institute of Directors covering economic policy, taxation and public service reform issues. He also sits on the Economic Dependency working group at the Centre for Social Justice, and was involved in the production of the recent “Dynamic Benefits” report. He has also written a number of opinion pieces on tax for the Financial Times. He was formerly Research Director at the TaxPayers’ Alliance, where he commissioned a dynamic model of the UK economy, showing the benefits of reducing the tax burden, and was regularly quoted in the media. In 2006, he was Political Secretary to the Tax Reform Commission and wrote several sections of the Commission’s report. Prior to that he worked for the think tank Reform for two years as Economics Research Officer, where he authored a number of papers on tax and economic reform, including drawing up Reform’s “growth rule” for sustainable public spending and co-authoring a pensions reform plan with Tony Blair’s former economic adviser, Derek Scott. Corin has also spoken on public spending and public service reform at the European Parliament in Strasbourg and to think tanks in Canada. He read PPE at Balliol College, Oxford.

Dr Richard Wellings -

Dr Richard Wellings is the Deputy Editorial Director at the Institute of Economic Affairs. He is deputy editor of the journal Economic Affairs and works on the production of the IEA’s monograph series. Richard is the editor of the IEA blog and the author of several papers and reports examining economic policy issues from a free-market perspective.

Richard Woolhouse

Richard is the Head of Tax and Fiscal Policy at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI).  He has a background as a City Economist (Citi, CSFB) and in consulting (McKinsey) and has worked at HMRC and HMT.  Richard has a double first class degree from Cambridge University.