Executive Leadership Team

Anthony leads CMI’s policy and external affairs, overseeing its research, policy, and external relations. He is an award winning policy and social innovator. He previously led the Royal Society of Arts’ policy and social change work as Chief Impact Officer covering economic security, future of work, education, lifelong learning, local democracy and regenerative futures. He was a leading voice, writer and presenter on the RSA’s platforms for almost a decade.

His policy work on economic security and Universal Basic Income was awarded with a Prospect Magazine Think Tank of the Year award. HundrED has listed the Cities of Learning innovation he designed as ‘one of the top 100 global education innovations’. He has written for the FT, Guardian, Independent, New Statesman, Spectator, The Times and numerous journals including the British Medical Journal. At the United Nations DESA, he was a member of the expert advisory group on economic security and has twice appeared at TEDx. He directed the Independent Review into the Police Federation. Anthony graduated from Cambridge University and the London School of Economics.

His last book Left without a future? was described by the leading economist Diane Coyle as diagnosing the democratic problem ‘astutely’ with a ‘refreshing’ humility and pragmatism. The Economist marked it as one of books defining a ‘decentralising’ progressive politics. The New Statesman review described it as a “very readable and broad political manifesto”. And the LSE as an “engaging read and one of the better, more innovative responses… the challenges posed in post-crisis Britain”. His previous book, Barack Obama: the movement for change, was published in the UK, Japan and Italy.