What is the Policy Leaders Fellowship?
The Policy Leaders Fellowship addresses the needs of the most senior policy makers – whether in Whitehall, Brussels or other administrations – providing access to research and academic expertise. Launched in 2013, its discussions focus on the need for long-term thinking, the value of evidence, and fresh perspectives on key challenges.
Who is the Fellowship for?
Policy Leaders Fellows join the Fellowship by invitation. Those who take part include Permanent Secretaries and Directors-General from Whitehall and Brussels, as well as Chief Executives of agencies and major corporations and foundations.
What does the Fellowship involve?
Our Leaders Fellows participate both in one-to-one meetings with leading academics and in roundtable discussions with researchers and other Fellows. The Fellowship meets once a term in Cambridge, under the Chairmanship of former UK Cabinet Secretary Lord Wilson.
Over the course of the two-year Fellowship, Fellows commit to two days of meetings per year.
What topics are covered?
Roundtable meetings have included discussions on the intelligent use of modelling in government, the future of work, cities, conspiracy and democracy, and open policy making in a digital world; they have also explored the latest thinking on academic frontiers such as neuroscience, artificial intelligence, life sciences and the internet.
What are the benefits of joining the Fellowship?
- access to senior academics across all disciplines
- membership of a network of high-level policy professionals
- access to structured interactions, including the opportunity to convene bespoke discussions
- the challenge to thinking which is characteristic of the Fellowship process, promoting innovation and creative approaches.
How much does it cost?
The enrolment fee is £4800 plus VAT, for two years.
Policy Leaders Fellows (and alum)
Those who have completed two years as Fellows are now alumni. Current Policy Leaders Fellows and alumni/alumnae are listed below:
Policy Leaders Fellows
Gillian Beasley
Cambridgeshire County Council
Alex Chisholm
Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
Gareth Davies
Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
Matthew Gould
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)
Tricia Hayes
Department for Transport (DfT)
Sarah Healey
Department for Exiting the European Union
Joy Hutcheon
Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO)
David Kennedy
Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
Paul Kett
Department for Education
Jonathan Mills
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
Shan Morgan
Welsh Government
Jeremy Pocklington
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG)
Vikas Pota
Varkey Foundation
Philip Rycroft
Department for Exiting the European Union
Patrick Vallance
Government Office for Science (GO-Science)
Chris Wormald
Department of Health and Social Care
Policy Leaders Fellows - Alum
Tera Allas
McKinsey & Company
Sam Beckett
Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
Deborah Bronnert
Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO)
Nadia Calviño
European Commission
Lindy Cameron
Department for International Development (DfID)
Jon Cunliffe
Bank of England
Helen Edwards
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG)
Leslie Evans
Scottish Government
David Eyton
BP
Iain Gray
Cranfield University
Paul Grice
The Scottish Parliament
Ed Humpherson
UK Statistics Authority
Nick Joicey
Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
Gavin Kelly
Resolution Foundation
Julian Kelly
Ministry of Defence (MoD)
Robert Madelin
Fipra International
Charlie Massey
General Medical Council (GMC)
Clive Maxwell
Department for Transport (DfT)
Jeremy Moore
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
Clare Moriarty
Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
Geoff Mulgan
Nesta
Sue Owen
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)
John Pullinger
UK Statistics Authority
Dominique Ristori
European Commission
Antonia Romeo
Department for International Trade
Philip Rutnam
Home Office
Jonathan Slater
Department for Education
Geoffrey Spence
Lloyds Banking Group
Julia Unwin
CSaP Advisory Council
Ashok Vaswani
Barclays
Peter Watkins
Ministry of Defence (MoD)
Katrina Williams
UK Permanent Representation to the EU