Nick Pearce
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Nick Pearce is a former special adviser to the Labour Party[1] and current director of "left-leaning" think-tank the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR).
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Background
Pearce studied at Manchester, then Oxford University. He now lives with his wife in South London.[2] Pearce is a former Chair of the Advisory Board to the UK Chief Scientist's Foresight Progamme. He served on the Equalities Review and the Teaching & Learning 2020 Review. He is on the board of the Royal Institute of British Architects Trust and the UK-India Roundtable.[3]
Revolving door: Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and Labour
Previously a Research Fellow at IPPR,[4] Pearce was also a Labour Party adviser during Opposition then the Labour Government when he worked for MPs David Blunkett and Ann Taylor.[5] As Times Education Supplement journalist Jon Slater notes, "Relations between the two bodies [IPPR and the Department for Education and Skills] are close enough to allow IPPR research fellows to moonlight in Labour's innovations unit".[6]
In August 1998, Pearce returned to the IPPR;[7] but in July 1999, came back to work for the Labour Party. From 1999 to 2001, Pearce was a special adviser in the Department for Education and Employment. He then followed David Blunkett to the Home Office where he worked from 2001 to 2003.[8]
In September 2003, Pearce returned to the IPPR where he worked as Director until 2007.[9]
From 2007 to 2010, Pearce was Head of the Policy Unit at No. 10.[10] Describing life in Downing Street under Gordon Brown, Pearce remarked that "There was a year which was frankly awful. Staff morale was not high and it was not the sort of functioning operation that you would want."[11]
He rejoined the IPPR in September 2010, replacing former job-sharing co-directors Carey Oppenheim and Lisa Harker. Pearce said:
- We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to rethink and renew progressive ideas in this country, and it is my ambition that the IPPR will be at the heart of that process: unashamedly reformist, open and pluralist, but always grounded in strong values and rigorous research.[12]
Contact, Resources, Notes
Contact
Email: n.pearce AT ippr.org
Blog: http://www.ippr.org.uk/Blogs/NickPearce
Resources
- A 'Defining Budget II: It is simply incredible to call this “fair”', Nick Pearce, openDemocracy, 22 June 2010
- 'Gap between rich and poor narrows', Nick Pearce, New Statesman, 29 May 2006
Notes
- ↑ Info-Dynamics Research, "Where are they now? The 1997/1998 Special Advisers to the Labour Government", GMB: April 2006 Briefing, p10, accessed 20.09.10
- ↑ Staff writers, "Nick Pearce", The Guardian, accessed 21.09.10
- ↑ Institute for Public Policy Research, "Nick Pearce", accessed 21.09.10
- ↑ Josh Hillman and Nick Pearce, "Josh Hillman and Nick Pearce argue the benefits of a new consumer culture among students", The Guardian, 22.07.97
- ↑ Mark Henderson and Adam Sherwin, "Revealed: the whiz-kids who really run Britain", The Times, 09.07.1999
- ↑ Jon Slater, "Meshed in web of power", Times Education Supplement, 22.07.05, accessed 21.09.10
- ↑ Staff writers, "Wonk's return; Antithesis", The Times Higher Educational Supplement, 21.08.98
- ↑ Info-Dynamics Research, "Where are they now? The 1997/1998 Special Advisers to the Labour Government", GMB: April 2006 Briefing, p10, accessed 20.09.10
- ↑ Alan Thomson, "Taylor Set To Advise Blair", The Times Higher Education Supplement, 12.09.03
- ↑ Institute for Public Policy Research, "Nick Pearce", accessed 21.09.10
- ↑ David Hughes, "Life in Downing Street under Gordon Brown was even worse than we thought", The Telegraph, 21.09.10, accessed 21.09.10
- ↑ PAN Staff, "Purnell and Pearce to take up top IPPR roles", Public Affairs News, 29.07.10, accessed 21.09.10
