Corin Taylor

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Corin Taylor is a director at the UK Onshore Operators Group trade lobby. He is a former research director of the Taxpayers Alliance think tank[1] and a senior policy adviser at the Institute of Directors.

Taylor also sits on the Social Return on Investment Steering Group at the Centre for Social Justice and is a senior fellow at the Economic Policy Centre. He was previously a member of the Economic Dependency Working Group at the Centre for Social Justice, research director at the Taxpayers’ Alliance, political secretary at the Tax Reform Commission and economics research officer at the think tank Reform. He has also written for the Centre for Policy Studies, Civitas and Policy Exchange think tanks on a freelance basis.

Taylor was a co-author of the Taxpayers Alliance report into benefit reform.[2]

Authored IoD shale gas report sponsored by Cuadrilla

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In 2013 Taylor authored a report for the IoD on the prospects for shale gas exploration in the UK, which was sponsored by fracking firm Cuadrilla Resources.

In October 2013 Taylor was appointed head of communications research at oil and gas production and power generation company Centrica Energy, [3] which bought 25 per cent of fracking firm Cuadrilla Resources that same year.

In 2015 Taylor was described as a senior adviser to UKOOG and spoke at the ShaleWorld UK conference held in London.

Affiliations

Taxpayers Alliance | Institute of Directors | Centre for Social Justice | Economic Policy Centre | Centre for Social Justice | Tax Reform Commission | Reform | Centre for Policy Studies | Civitas | Policy Exchange


Notes

  1. Taxpayers Alliance, Who We Are, Taxpayers Alliance, Accessed 20-August-2010
  2. Taylor et al., Welfare reform in tough fiscal times, The Taxpayers Alliance, 2010
  3. Jonathan Tilley, Centrica Energy, PR Week, 9 October 2013