Wincott Foundation
The Wincott Foundation is a charitable foundation chaired by Sir Geoffrey Owen, a former editor of the Financial Times and Senior Fellow in the Department of Management at the London School of Economics. It spends around £30,000 to £40,000 annually and is best known for its Annual UK Press Awards where print and broadcast journalists are given awards for economic, business and financial journalism.
Origins and ideological orientation
Founded in 1969 by Harold Wincott, editor of the Investors Chronicle, the Foundation became part of the infrastructre of British neoliberalism. It hosted lectures by the radical right-wing economist Milton Freedman and was instrumental in the establishment of the Social Affairs Unit in 1980. [1] According to the Daily Telegraph, Ralph Harris - the self-described ‘radical reactionary’ who founded the Institute of Economic Affairs [2] - was the 'moving spirit in the Wincott Foundation' until his death in 2006. [3]
Notes
- ↑ 'Obituary: Lord Harris of High Cross', Daily Telegraph, 20 October 2006
- ↑ Andrew Roth, 'Lord Harris of High Cross: Rightwing economist with a radical agenda', Guardian, 20 October 2006
- ↑ 'Obituary: Lord Harris of High Cross', Daily Telegraph, 20 October 2006
