Progressive Vision

Progressive Vision calls itself "an independent think-tank, campaigning for new and liberal solutions to the problems facing British and European society".

People

According to the Progressive Vision website as at October 2009, the following are the directors and staff of the organisation:

• Director: Shane Frith. His biography on the Progressive Vision website reads:

Shane has worked for a number of London based think tanks, including Reform, Open Europe and the Centre for Policy Studies, since moving from his native New Zealand. He is also the founder and Director of Doctors’ Alliance, a pan-European network of medical professionals seeking better ways to deliver healthcare.

• Director of Communications: Mark Littlewood. His biography on the Progressive Vision website reads:

Mark was Head of Media for the Liberal Democrats from December 2004 to May 2007. Previously, he was Campaigns Director of human rights group Liberty from June 2001 until April 2004. In 2004, he was co-founder, and first national coordinator of NO2ID, Britain’s leading pressure group opposing the introduction of national identity cards. He has been Chairman of NO2ID since 2006.

• Researcher: Sam Collins

• Fellow: Keith Boyfield. His biography on the Progressive Vision website reads:

Keith is an economist and writer who specialises in marketing, competition and regulatory policy. He runs a City consultancy advising multinational companies, non profit organisations and charities. He is the executive director of Leriba Risk, a consultancy assisting business and investment in Africa.

He is a fellow of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) and chairman of the IEA's Shadow Regulatory Policy Committee; and a research fellow of the Centre for Policy Studies.

Keith has written and consulted extensively on competition policy, marketing and advertising issues. He is a regular contributor to the editorial sections of the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and other leading newspapers; and a columnist for Acquisitions Monthly.

• Fellow: Dr Mark Pennington

• Fellow: Professor John Spiers. His biography on the Progressive Vision website reads:

He is a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs, specialising in health care and public policy. In 2001 he was a founder member of the Advisory Council of Reform. He has previously served for 5 years as Health Policy Adviser to The Social Market Foundation, and as Chairman of The Health Policy Committee of The Centre for Policy Studies. In 1999 was an Adjunct Scholar at The Cascade Policy Institute, Portland, Oregon, studying American health care policy. He was a member of the John Major's Prime Minister’s Citizen’s Charter Advisory Panel. He was Chairman of Brighton Health Authority, Brighton Health Care Trust, the NHS SE Region David Salomons Management Centre, and The Patients Association, whose re-launch he led in 1995.

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