Harry is the executive director at IPPR.

Harry leads IPPR’s overall strategy and our teams across Westminster, the north and Scotland. He is the Institute’s lead spokesperson and commentator writing regularly for the Financial Times, the Guardian, and New Statesman, as well as appearing on TV and radio including BBC News, the Today programme and Sky News. An economist by training, he is a leading thinker on economic policy, public spending and government reform – with the Sunday Times ranking him as one of the most influential voices on the new government’s economic policy.

Prior to his current role Harry was director of policy and politics at IPPR, heading up our research, policy and influencing work in Westminster. In this role he helped set up new programmes on democracy and politics, and international policy and geopolitics. Before that he was associate director for work and the welfare state, where he led the Institute’s work on public spending and public service reform, director of strategy at SCT, a homelessness and addictions charity and a civil servant at the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). Outside the IPPR Harry is a non-executive director at West London NHS Trust.