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'''David George Green''' (born 24 January 1951) is director and founder of the right wing think tank [[Civitas]]. Before its establishment in 2000, he had been at the [[Institute of Economic Affairs]] since 1984, and Director of the [[IEA Health and Welfare Unit]] since 1986. He was a Labour councillor in Newcastle upon Tyne from 1976 until 1981, and from 1981 to 1983 was a Research Fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra. <ref>[http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/pubs/about.php People] (Accessed: 18 December 2007)</ref>

In the past he has mainly been involved in campaigning for the privatisation of welfare and the NHS. 

He is a Visiting Professor in the Department of International Studies at the [[University of Buckingham]], a private university which the Institute of Economic Affairs had a key role in establishing. The University describes him as an expert on “reform of the welfare state, especially health and welfare” <ref>[http://www.buckingham.ac.uk/publicity/dofe/green.html University of Buckingham Directory of Experts] (Accessed: 18 December 2007)</ref>

Green was nominated by the Conservative Party to serve on the Home Secretary’s Crime Statistics Review Group in 2006. <ref>[http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs06/crime-statistics-independent-review-06.pdfCrime Statistics: An independent review November 2006 PDF] (Accessed: 18 December 2007)</ref>
==Publications==
His books and pamphlets include 
*''Power and Party in an English City'', Allen & Unwin, 1980; 
*''Mutual Aid or Welfare State'', Allen & Unwin, 1984, with L. Cromwell; 
*''Working Class Patients and the Medical Establishment'', Temple Smith/Gower, 1985; and 
*''The New Right: The Counter Revolution in Political, Economic and Social Thought'', Wheatsheaf, 1987; 
*''Reinventing Civil Society'', IEA, 1993; 
*''Community Without Politics: A Market Approach to Welfare Reform'', IEA, 1996; 
*''Benefit Dependency: How Welfare Undermines Independence'' (1998); 
*''An End to Welfare Rights: The Rediscovery of Independence'' (1999); 
*''Crime and Civil Society: Can we become a more law-abiding people?'', London: Civitas, 2005; and 
*''We're (Nearly) all Victims Now: how political correctness is undermining our liberal culture'', London: Civitas, 2006. 

He contributed the chapter on 'The Neo-Liberal Perspective' in Blackwell's ''The Student's Companion to Social Policy'' (2nd ed, 2003). <ref>[http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/pubs/about.php People] (Accessed: 18 December 2007)</ref>

==Affiliations==
*[[Quilliam Foundation]], advisor
*[[Civitas]]
==References==

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