Anthony Browne
Anthony Browne is Policy Director to the Mayor of London.[1]
Browne holds a degree in Mathematics from Cambridge University. He is married with two children and lives in North London.[2]
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1988-89 Booz Allen and Hamilton
Browne worked as a Business analyst for management consultants Booz Allen and Hamilton.[3]
1989-92
Browne worked in various media jobs, including diarist for the Daily Telegraph's Peterborough column and producer for television production company Uden Associates.[4]
1992-97 BBC
From 1992 to 1997 Browne worked for BBC TV and Radio news, including working on the Money Programme and Business Breakfast. he was promoted to become business reporter, economics reporter and acting economics correspondent for main TV and Radio programmes, including the Today programme, World at One, One O'Clock and Nine O'Clock News.[5]
1997-2002 Observer
From 1997 to 2002, Browne worked at the Observer newspaper as economics correspondent, deputy business editor, health editor and environment editor.[6]
2002-2007 Times
From 2002 to 2007, Browne worked at The Times newspaper as environment editor, Brussels correspondent, and chief political correspondent.[7]
During his time at the Times, Browne became embroiled in controversy over his comments on VDare, a an anti-immigration US web forum, affiliated to the Center for American Unity.[8]
He was also criticsed over an August 2005 article which stated:
- The support of Islamic fascism spans Britain’s Left. The wacko Socialist Workers Party joined forces with the Muslim Association of Britain, the democracy-despising, Shariah-law-wanting group, to form the Stop the War Coalition. The former Labour MP George Galloway created the Respect Party with the support of the MAB, and won a seat in Parliament by cultivating Muslim resentment.[9]
2007-08 Policy Exchange
From 2007 to 2008, Browne worked as Director of the right-wing think-tank Policy Exchange.[10]. According to ConservativeHome's ToryDiary "During his time at PX there was a doubling of staff numbers but a concern that the think tank became too close to Project Cameron."[11]
2008 GLA
Browne was appointed as Policy Director to the Mayor of London on 21 July. The Guardian remarked: "Browne's appointment – the fourth from Policy Exchange to get a top job in the Tory party – marks a further high watermark in the influence of Policy Exchange on future Tory policy.[12]
Affiliations
External links
- Anthony Browne - Policy Exchange profile
References
- ↑ Mayor appoints Policy Director, Greater London Authority, 21 July 2008
- ↑ Mayor appoints Policy Director, Greater London Authority, 21 July 2008
- ↑ Mayor appoints Policy Director, Greater London Authority, 21 July 2008
- ↑ Mayor appoints Policy Director, Greater London Authority, 21 July 2008
- ↑ Mayor appoints Policy Director, Greater London Authority, 21 July 2008
- ↑ Mayor appoints Policy Director, Greater London Authority, 21 July 2008
- ↑ Mayor appoints Policy Director, Greater London Authority, 21 July 2008
- ↑ Bloggers target Times writer, by Chris Tryhorn, Media Guardian, 3 August 2005.
- ↑ Fundamentally, we're useful idiots, by Anthony Browne, The Times, 1 August 2005.
- ↑ Mayor appoints Policy Director, Greater London Authority, 21 July 2008
- ↑ Anthony Browne leaves Policy Exchange to become Boris Johnson's Policy Director, ToryDiary, ConservativeHome, 21 July 2008.
- ↑ A change in the political weather, by David Hencke, guardian.co.uk, 22 July 2008.
