Policy Exchange

Policy Exchange
founded in the year	2002
City	London
Country	UK
Website	http://www.policyexchange.org.uk/
address	10 Storey's Gate, Westminster London SW1P 3AY
founder	Nicholas Boles, Michael Gove, Francis Maude
Networks	Stockholm Network, European Ideas Network (EIN), Think Tank, parteipolitische EU-Think Tank-Netzwerke
Virtual Networks A "Virtual Network" is a group of Think Tanks identified by certain semantic and normative (ideological) commonalities (e.g. climate change scepticism). Such a virtual network constitutes a research field that differs from the study of formal networks. Formal networks are real in the sense of officially acknowledged and immediately open to empirical validation. Virtual networks on the other hand display shared ideas. Social network analysis tools can be applied to find out if or to what extent virtual networks are real networks that display linkages (membership in networks, personnel, resources etc.). Unconnected think tanks in turn can be considered special cases in need of explanation independent from network structures (unless we have to assume invisible, hidden or covered ties).	Austerity politics
Last revision	10.06.2015
Presence of Think Tank affiliates in the various fieldsWe try to capture where people affiliated with a Think Tank - affiliates are employees, members of the advisory and supervisory board etc. - are present: if they write in the media, teach in universities or work for another Think Tank. The chart down below shows in which fields the affiliates are present. Every presence is counted once.
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<pPie size=330x200 Legend> Think Tank,0 Business,0 Media,4 Politics,0 Academia,1 NGO,0 </pPie>
Kind of activities of Think Tank affiliatesWe try to capture where people affiliated with a Think Tank - affiliates are employees, members of the advisory and supervisory board etc. - are present: if they write in the media, teach in universities or work for another Think Tank. The chart down below shows which kind of activities the affiliates conduct. Every presence is counted once.
<pPie size=330x200 Legend> Author,3 Leader (CEO etc.),0 Consultant,0 Editor,0 Interviewee,0 Member,2 Participant,0 Lecturer,0 Employee,0 </pPie>

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Organizational Structure and Funding

Address

10 Storey's Gate, Westminster London SW1P 3AY

People

Executive board

People leading the Think Tank in the day to day business (CEOs, directorates etc.).

• Neil O'Brien, (former)

• James Frayne, Director of Policy and Strategy

• Natalie Evans, (former)

• Amy Fisher, (former)

• Julia Mizen, Director of Finance and Operations

• Dean Godson, Director

• Sian Hansen, (former)

Staff

People working for the Think Tank (Fellows etc.). This includes also part-time employees.

• Ted Sumpster, (former)

• Ralph Hartley, (former)

• Jonathan Dupont, Economic & Social Policy Research Fellow

• Ed Holmes, (former)

• Henry Featherstone, (former)

• Alex Massey, (former)

• Jacob Amis, (former)

• Eddie Copeland, Head of Technology Policy

• Damian Hind, Economic & Social Policy Research Fellow

• Natasha Porter, Deputy Head of Education

• Gabriel Elefteriu, Security Research Fellow

• James Groves, (former)

• Simon Less, (former)

• James Norman, (former)

• Marc Glendening, Research Fellow, Constitutional and Legal Affairs

• Lilly Whitham, (former)

• Anna Fazackerley, (former)

• Neil O'Brien, (former)

• Robert McIlveen, (former)

• Chris Walker, Head of Housing, Planning and Urban Policy

• Katherine Drayson, Environment & Energy Research Fellow

• Natalie Evans, (former)

• Lawrence Kay, (former)

• Greg Munro, (former)

• James Cracknell, Senior Research Fellow for Obesity and Physical Activity

• Hiba Sameen, (former)

• Andrew Lilico, (former)

• Steve Hughes, Head of Economic and Social Policy

• Amy Fisher, (former)

• Max Chambers, (former)

• Damien Gilchrist, (former)

• Glyn Gaskarth, Head of Crime & Justice

• Cameron Scott, Research Fellow, Technology Policy Unit

• Andrew Brinkley, (former)

• Oliver Marc Hartwich (before 2008)

• Richard Howard, Head of Environment & Energy

Supervisory board

People supervising the Think Tank (mainly in economic questions).

• Candida Gertler

• Charles Stewart-Smith

• Simon Brocklebank-Fowler

• Richard Ehrman

• Theodore Agnew, (former)

• Virginia Fraser

• Alice Thomson, (former)

• David Frum, Chairman of the Board

• Andrew Roberts

• Camilla Cavendish, (former)

• Peter Wall

• Tim Steel, (former)

• Diana Berry

• Charles Moore, (former)

• Krishna Rao

• Simon Wolfson

• George Robinson

• Robert Rosenkranz

• Robin Edwards

• Richard Briance

Topics

We used the DGs of the EU to generate a basic list of topics. This list is going to be steadily extended. However we try to preserve a persistent list of topics.

• Institutional Reform/Public Services
• Justice and fundamental rights
• Enterprise and Industry
• Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
• Energy
• Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth
• Financial Programming and the Budget
• Health and Consumer Policy
• Inneres
• Environment/Climate Action
• Taxation and Customs Union, Audit and Anti-Fraud
• Economic and Monetary Affairs

Semantic Fields

What we call here a semantic field is the idea to categorize think tanks in a two level system. The first levels are so called 'Virtual Networks' and the second are the semantic fields. Accordingly every semantic field entered here has to be attached to a virtual network. If you would like to follow a special phenomenon among think tanks please contact us and we are going to add a new virtual network. Semantic fields are topics that promote a virtual network. Lets take climate change as an example: 'climate change skeptics' is the virtual network and 'adaption instead of mitigation' would be one possible semantic field.

• Debt Brake (Austerity Politics): proposes to implement a strict rule to reduce the debt/GDP-ratio on regular base