Richard Reeves

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Richard Reeves was special adviser to UK deputy prime minister Nick Clegg from June 2010[1]until April 2012. [2] Reeves is now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and associate director of think-tank CentreForum.

Career

Reeves was director of "third way" think-tank Demos from August 2008 until June 2010 when he became Nick Clegg's special adviser on political strategy in the Coalition government.[3]

He is co-founder of the consultancy Intelligence Agency and has worked as a research fellow at think tank the Institute for Public Policy Research.[4] He is also a former Director of Futures at the Work Foundation.[5]

During the first year of the Labour Government in 1997, Reeves was principal policy adviser to the Minister for Welfare Reform Frank Field.[6]

Reeves is a former economics correspondent of The Guardian and society editor of The Observer. He has been editor at large for Management Today and essayist for the New Statesman.[7]

Publications

Reeves has published two books, John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand (2007), a biography of the British liberal philosopher and politician, and Happy Mondays – putting the pleasure back into work. (2002) about job satisfaction. He also co-authored The 80 Minute MBA (2009) with John Knell, a condensed business management book.[8]

Contact, Resources, Notes

Contact

Email: richard@richard-reeves.com
Website: http://www.richard-reeves.com

Resources

Notes

  1. Department of Information Services, "Parliamentary Information List", accessed 07.09.10
  2. Patrick Wintour, Nick Clegg senior aide resigns, The Guardian, 18 April 2012
  3. PAN Staff, "Demos hunts new director as Reeves becomes adviser to deputy PM", Public Affairs News, 01.07.10, accessed 09.09.10
  4. Speakers for Business, "Richard Reeves biography", accessed 09.09.10
  5. Richard Reeves, "About", accessed 09.09.10
  6. Speakers for Business, "Richard Reeves biography", accessed 09.09.10
  7. Speakers for Business, "Richard Reeves biography", accessed 09.09.10
  8. Speakers for Business, "Richard Reeves biography", accessed 09.09.10