Institute for Public Policy Research

The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR)is a UK think tank with links to the Labour Party. It describes itself as "progressive".

The IPPR is organizing an extensive series of fringe events at the 2004 Labour Party conference, in association with the television station Channel 4

History

According to the IPPR website, the organisation was "founded by Lord Hollick who developed the idea for an independent progressive think tank in 1986."

Personnel

IPPR Trustees

• Chris Powell - Chairman
• Jeremy Hardie - Treasurer - also chairman of Opendemocracy, and of WH Smith
• Chai Patel - Secretary
• Kumar Bhattacharyya - former adviser to Thatcher [1]
• Lord Brooke - formed TUC general council member
• Lord Eatwell - former advisor to Neil Kinnock
• Lord Gavron (ex of Nicky Gavron), and ex-chair of the Guardian
• Chris Gibson-Smith - has been chair of London Stock Exchange, and the National Air Traffic Servives
• Anthony Giddens - from the LSE
• Lord Clive Hollick - of United News and Media
• Jane Humphries - historian from Oxford
• Roger Jowell - from National Centre for Social Research, Centre for Research into Elections and Social Trends - another LSE person
• Neil Kinnock - former Labour leader
• Richard Lambert - former editor of the Financial Times
• David Marquand - from oxford university
• Frances O'Grady - deputy sec general of TUC
• Michael Perry
• David Pitt-Watson - managing director of various financial etc companies
• Dave Prentis - secretary general of Unisom
• (Lord) David Puttnam - filmmaker?
• Martin Rees - the Astronomer Royal
• Jan Royall - head of the European Commission Office in Wales, former aide to Kinnock
• Ed Sweeney -
• Shirley Williams
• Baroness Young of Old Scone

Staff

• Carey Oppenheim - co-director
• Lisa Harker - co-director
• Ian Kearns - Deputy Chair of ippr's Security Commission
• Danny Sriskandarajah - Director of Research Strategy, Head of Migration, Equalities & Citizenship
• Kate Stanley - Acting Deputy Director and Head of Social Policy
• Sue Stirling Director, ippr north
• Jane Smith Director of Finance and Operations
• Olga Mrinska Research Director, ippr north

Affiliations

In 2006, Merck Sharp & Dohme Limited MSD agreed to partner with the IPPR on a project examining what the NHS might look like after 2008.

The MSD website report the 'background to the project is that, whereas in 2002 the government began the process of providing significant extra resources to the NHS, come 2008 the rate of growth of this spending is certain to fall. This project will therefore put forward proposals on how a sustainable health system which commands high levels of public support may be developed after 2008'.

MSD go on to add that 'MSD has previously worked closely with the IPPR on a number of projects. This has included supporting the development of a number of independent research projects, and joining several other corporate sponsors in supporting conferences and fringe events'. However they do not give more detailed information of their involvement or of what form it took.

External Links

• Institute for Public Policy Research Website Home Page Last Accessed 9th June 2007.