Julia is the co-founder of the Centre for British Progress. She has a background spanning AI, high-skilled STEM immigration, and philanthropy. She has held roles at Schmidt Futures, launched her own startup, and worked at the intersection of technology and policy. Her interests include AI policy, high-skilled immigration, and the commercialisation of research and innovation. Julia holds degrees from the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics.

David is the co-founder of the Centre for British Progress. He has worked in Westminster policy for the last decade, including at Chatham House, in Parliament, and as a Labour parliamentary candidate. His main areas of interest include economic growth, UK foreign policy, China-West relations and AI. He studied at the University of Oxford and London School of Economics.

Pedro was previously Head of Analysis at the UK’s Office for Life Sciences, leading a team that provided economic analysis and produced official government statistics in one of the UK's key growth sectors. Before that, he held academic positions at the Universities of Warwick, Middlesex and Essex, specialising in macroeconomic policy.

Ben is the Head of Science at the Centre for British Progress. He is professor of practice in research and innovation policy at the University of Strathclyde. He was formerly senior policy adviser to the UK Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, advising multiple science ministers since 2019. He has held a number of roles in both the civil service and in UK scientific funding agencies.

Freddie is working on making our output as impactful as possible. As well as his work at UK Day One he works at YIMBY Alliance and is also the director of PricedOut, the UK's campaign for affordable house prices.

Julia is a Kennedy Scholar and MPP Candidate at Harvard Kennedy School, focusing her research on industrial and economic policy. She previously worked in Westminster on foreign policy and as Innovation Policy Lead at UK Day One.

Duncan works on modelling economic and policy questions of AI, housing and growth. He founded and edits Inference Magazine on AI progress, is a Research Associate at the Adam Smith Institute and designed Bluedot Impact's Economics of Transformative AI course. He blogs at Model Thinking.

Joseph Jarnecki is a Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute. He has written extensively on international and domestic technology and cyber security policy. He holds degrees from King’s College London in Conflict and Security. 

Natasha Buckley is a Research Analyst  at the Royal United Services Institute. Her research includes disruptive and emerging technologies, national security and policy. Tash is also a PhD candidate at Royal Holloway University of London, her thesis focuses on the transition from cyber security to cyber power within strategy and policy in the UK.

Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Mississippi. His research focuses on the interplay between firms' decisions to invest in R&D or physical capital, and the implications for the aggregate economy, firm lifecycles, and recoveries from recessions. Prior to joining Ole Miss, he earned his PhD from The Ohio State University and worked at a boutique economic consultancy specialising in antitrust, leading teams on cases such as Google/Waze and Dow/DuPont.

Sophia is a Manager at Labor Mobility Partnerships (LaMP) where she is responsible for improving labour migration systems in Europe and Australia Pacific. Her projects focus on streamlining processes with governments and bringing innovative financial solutions to the labor migration environment. Previously she published the Global Britain report setting out policy proposals for a post-Brexit immigration system and led a UK cross-sectorial coalition of trade bodies and other organisations that brought about decisive changes to the UK immigration system.

Linus Pardoe is the UK Policy Manager for the Good Food Institute Europe - a non-profit think-tank accelerating the science, policy, regulation and commercialisation of alternative proteins. Linus previously worked as a researcher for a cross-party think-tank in Westminster and has written widely about the policy and regulatory landscape around alternative proteins. He holds an MSc in Social Research and Social Policy from University College London.

Tone Langengen is a senior policy advisor at the Toby Blair Institute. She is an expert in net-zero policy and strategy. Her work highlights the importance of practical policy solutions that address climate change. Prior to joining TBI, Tone worked in the UK civil service on various net-zero policy areas such as heat-and-transport decarbonisation and green growth. In addition, she worked in the Cabinet Office where she helped deliver the response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Ben Hopkinson is policy researcher at Britain Remade, a campaign for economic growth. He is keen to see the UK build more transport links, houses, and clean energy sources. He was previously a senior risk consultant at PwC. He holds a BA from the University of Oxford and an MSc from the London School of Economics.

Emma Casey is a B.S. candidate in computer science and economics at Stanford University, where she focuses on the intersection of technology, economics, and policy. Emma has experience on the investment team of two venture capital firms and recently joined Google through their Associate Product Manager (APM) program. She is also an undergraduate researcher at SIEPR, the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.

Helena Roy is a PhD candidate in economics at Stanford University. She specialises in behaviour, innovation, and information in healthcare. Her work includes research on patient and physician responses to digital health tools, how medical education impacts health disparities, and the impact of broadband infrastructure on education outcomes for low-income students. She holds degrees from Cambridge and Oxford, and is from the UK and Aotearoa New Zealand.

Emma Rockall is a PhD candidate in economics at Stanford University. She works on macroeconomics and labour, focusing on innovation, technology diffusion and inequality. Her research includes the impact of policies that affect labour mobility (such as noncompete agreements) on aggregate innovation, and the impact of AI on inequality, and how policies that aim to correct this can influence adoption. She did her undergraduate degree at Oxford, masters at University College of London, and previously worked at the Bank of England.

David Cabrelli is Professor of Labour Law at the University of Edinburgh. His research on employment and labour law has been cited by the UK Supreme Court, the Hong Kong High Court and the Federal Court of Australia, as well as the Law Commission, the Scottish Law Commission, the House of Commons Library and the ILO. 

Alan Eustace is Assistant Professor of Private Law, Trinity College Dublin and formerly Fellow of Magdalen College, University of Oxford. His research focuses on trade union law and workers’ civil liberties, and has been cited in the Irish Parliament.

Erika is a computational physicist and molecular biologist. She leads the Biodesign Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute in London, UK. Erika’s research focuses on developing techniques for robotics-accelerated evolution and applying them to protein and microbial engineering. In 2021, Erika founded Align to Innovate, a nonprofit working to improve life science research through programmable experiments. Erika holds a PhD in Biological Engineering from MIT and a BS in Computer Science from Caltech.

Hamidah is a Research Intern at UK Day One and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Institute for Progress, focusing on high-skilled immigration and metascience policy issues. She is currently a student at McGill. Previously, she was a research assistant for a decision lab at NYU and worked on the Charity Elections projects at Giving What We Can. Her main interests include industrial policy, migration, and data infrastructure.

Sanjush specialises in science, innovation and technology policy. He was a Science Policy Adviser to the Labour Party and the Science Policy Lead at UK Day One. An executive committee member of Scientists for Labour, he holds a masters in medical research and is completing medical training at the University of Leeds.

Jonny Coates is the Associate Director of ASAPbio, a scientist-driven non-profit promoting transparency and innovation in life science communication. Jonny is a leading advocate for academic reform with over 10 years’ experience in immunology and metascience. He has contributed to pieces in The Economist, The Scientist and Nature on topics from open science to academic culture.

Jam Kraprayoon is a Researcher on the Policy & Standards team at the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy (IAPS). Prior to IAPS, he was a manager at the Effective Institutions Project and a program officer at the Asian Productivity Organization, where he focused on public sector reform, regulation, and strategic foresight. He holds an MPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford and a BSc in Government from the London School of Economics.

Bill Anderson-Samways is a Research Analyst on the Policy & Standards team at the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy (IAPS). He was previously a researcher at the Social Market Foundation, a Westminster think tank, where he focused on climate policy. He holds an MPhil in Anthropocene Studies and a BA in Politics and International Relations, both from the University of Cambridge.

Alastair is a research associate at 1DaySooner. Alastair is a former COVID-19 human challenge study volunteer. His research at 1Day Sooner focuses on indoor air quality and pandemic preparedness. He studies cancer biology at Imperial College London.

Arthur Baker is a Director at the Development Innovation Lab at the University of Chicago, and Chief of Staff for Professor Michael Kremer. He is a member of the Accelerating Health Technologies group, which published research and advised policymakers on Market Shaping for COVID-19 vaccines.

Andrew Graves is a Director at Ortus Economic Research, a firm providing analysis, research and consultancy advice to economic development and policy clients. With over 30 years’ experience, he has particular interest in innovation, cluster development and local inclusive growth. He co-authored the Innovation Caucus’s “Review of Innovation Prizes”, commissioned by Innovate UK.

Tina Woods is Founder and CEO of Collider Health and Business for Health. She is the Healthy Longevity Champion for the National Innovation Centre for Ageing, co-leading the Quantum Healthy Longevity Innovation Mission and City of Longevity programme. Tina sits on various advisory groups, including the XPRIZE Global Visioneering Brain Trust, Strategic Advisory Board for the BBSRC Bioscience for an Integrated Understanding of Health and BSI standards group for AI in health and care. She is also a trustee for the British Society for Research on Ageing.

Eric Gilliam is a Fellow at the Good Science Project. His primary roles there are twofold. As a researcher, he writes the FreakTakes Substack. FreakTakes provides detailed operational histories of all-time great science and engineering teams and funders. As an advisor, he works with those who run and fund scientific teams to help them incorporate the lessons of history's best labs and funders. Before starting the FreakTakes Substack, he worked at Steve Levitt's Center for Radical Innovation for Social Change at the University of Chicago.

Kane is Head of Housing Research at YIMBY Alliance, leading efforts to tackle the UK housing crisis through policy analysis and advocacy. With a background in economics and law from Birkbeck, University of London, and The University of Law, he specialises in urban development, housing policy, and transport-oriented planning, working to drive sustainable and community-focused solutions.

Samuel Hughes is a research fellow at the University of Oxford. He has worked in a range of government and think tank policy roles, focussing on housing and planning.

Dani Merino-Garcia is the VP of Research for Project InnerSpace. Dr. Merino-Garcia moved into the geothermal sector in 2023, after 15 years working for Repsol, in research and technology development in the areas of production engineering, flow assurance and fluid characterisation.

Drew Nelson is VP for Programs Policy and Strategy in Project InnerSpace; prior to joining Project InnerSpace, Drew worked at the Catena Foundation, Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation, and the Environmental Defense Fund. Prior to joining EDF, Drew worked for the U.S. Department of State on international climate negotiations.

Keegan Harkavy is currently studying physics and computer science at Harvard University. He is interested in the expansion of renewable energy, particularly nuclear, and creating more efficient urban and national systems. He has previously worked at an AI energy start-up.

Tim Lines is a Project Finance Analyst working for the US 501(c)(3) Not-for-Profit organisation, Project InnerSpace under whose auspices this document is drafted. He is also CEO of the US geothermal developer, Geothermal Wells LLC; and a former energy policy adviser to the European Commission’s Central and Eastern European “Phare” programme which included his leading the drafting of district heat legislation and regulation for 13 Central and Eastern European countries, and Romania’s alignment with the Energy Chapter of the Acquis Communautaire. He has worked in the energy sector for 40 years. He is based in the UK.

Jordan Urban is a senior researcher in the Institute for Government’s civil service and policy making team, working on all things government reform. He was the lead researcher for the Commission on the Centre of Government and his work has been featured widely in government reviews and across the media. He previously co-founded GovTracker, an initiative tracking the progress of the government’s manifesto pledges, and worked at Full Fact and in communications. He helped to build multiple civic technology tools at the 2019 General Election, including one giving students information on whether voting in their home or university constituency would have the most impact. He has been published in the academic journal Political Studies.

Anthony Finkelstein is the President of City, University of London and Professor of Software Systems Engineering. He was formerly Chief Scientific Adviser for National Security to HM Government. During this period he retained a position at UCL and as a Fellow of The Alan Turing Institute (of which he was a Founder Trustee). He was Dean of UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences. He started his career at Imperial College. He has established three successful ‘spin-out’ companies (including two ‘exits’). He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Distinguished Fellow of RUSI (the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies). He was granted the title of Knight Bachelor for public service and was previously appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to computer science and engineering.

Laura Lungu is a PhD Candidate in Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, and MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Laura has published in Biology, Psychology and  Neuroscience research and has experience in industry as a research scientist. She’s involved in the Life Sciences Start-up community and wants to create a platform that promotes bidirectional connection between scientific knowledge and the current needs of the world, aiming to transform policymaking.

Gabriel Moberg is the Chief Operating Officer at the Green Grids Initiative. Gabriel was recently a Fulbright scholar at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government where he researched and published on energy policy at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. His views are his own.

Rian Chad Whitton is a writer and analyst for the U.S. political risk company Bismarck Analysis, and a former market analyst at ABI Research. He writes primarily about energy, manufacturing, and automation. You can find him on X and Linkedin, and his personal writing at Doctor Syn.

Dr Aveek Bhattacharya is the Research Director of the Social Market Foundation, a cross-party Westminster think tank. Prior to that he worked for the Institute of Alcohol Studies, where he remains an expert adviser. He has written widely on public health policy, including contributing to a World Health Organization report on alcohol pricing. He holds a PhD in Social Policy from the London School of Economics.

Zachary Spiro is a Policy Fellow at Onward. He is also a Manager at the strategy consulting firm Flint Global. He specialises in R&D policy, emerging technology and economic security, as well as the UK’s relationship with China. Prior to Flint, he worked as a Parliamentary Researcher for Sir Bernard Jenkin MP, in his capacity as Chair of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee.

Max Thilo is a Polaris Fellow at Entrepreneur First, a leading talent investor. His current focus is on the regulation of international telemedicine, building upon his previous research into healthcare systems. This work follows a research trip to Singapore, where Max studied the country's healthcare system. Max previously worked in Westminster as a researcher in the House of Commons, focusing on health and trade policy.

Andrew works on tech sovereignty, state capacity and special projects. He is co-founder of TxP, a community bridging emerging talent in tech and policy to build the future. Previously, he was a Principal at Form Ventures and worked on technology policy at the Tony Blair Institute.

Tym Syrytczyk is a research intern at UK DayOne. Previously, he worked on a Labour parliamentary campaign and was a researcher of international tobacco regulation for a health policy non-profit. He holds a degree from the University of Oxford.

Jason Hausenloy - is an AI policy researcher and student at the University of California Berkeley. With Duncan McClements, he writes the blog “Model Thinking.” 

Johannes Matt is an economist at the Centre for Macroeconomics (CFM) and a PhD Candidate in Economics at the London School of Economics at Political Science (LSE). He is also a Fellow at the LSE’s School of Public Policy where he teaches International Finance. His research focuses on how financial institutions shape innovation, business dynamism, and economic growth.

Peter Wells is a technologist who has helped many public, private and third sector organisations use technology, data and AI in ways that can benefit everyone.

James O’Malley is a writer and journalist covering politics, policy and technology. He writes the Odds and Ends of History newsletter.

Anna Powell-Smith is the director of the Centre for Public Data, a non-partisan advocacy organisation, and was previously chief product officer at UK startup Flourish.

Alec Thompson is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge specialising in legal evolution and legal complexity. He has published articles on the computability of law, legal history, and the ethics of legal natural language processing (NLP). He also teaches several undergraduate courses at the University of Cambridge and Oxford, such as a Roman Introduction to Private Law and Legal History.

Haydn Belfield is co-Chair of the Global Politics of AI project and Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. He has also for the past seven years been a Research Associate and Academic Project Manager at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. In that time the Centre tripled in size, and he advised the UK, US, and Singaporean governments; the EU, UN and OECD; and leading technology companies. 

Thomas is an engineer and startup founder with experience across medtech, biotech, and deep tech. He has worked for a leading UK medtech startup, was the first employee at a biotech startup, and most recently founded his own engineering design company. His main interests are in encouraging impactful science and technology inventions and supporting the UK startup ecosystem.

John runs YIMBY Alliance, a campaign advocating for more affordable housing and better infrastructure with the support of local communities. He was among the first UK writers to highlight the significant economic and social benefits of building more good homes for growth and welfare. Previously, he worked in law and finance in London and New York.

Cailean is a Researcher at the Linux Foundation and a PhD Candidate in Social Data Science at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. His interests are in OSS, the digital commons, and public interest computing. Previously, Cailean worked as the International Policy Lead at the UK Government’s Centre for Data Ethics & Innovation and served as a UK Delegate at the Global Partnership on AI and the Council of Europe's Ad Hoc Committee on AI

Matt is a lead developer for the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC), an open-source compiler for the functional programming language Haskell. He has also contributed to the development of many open-source Haskell libraries including haskell-language-server and worked on profiling and debugging tools.

Joe Peck is a research analyst at the Urban Institute in Washington, DC, and is a freelance advisor on UK policy. His research examines how governments can improve economic mobility for those in work, focusing on industrial legislation. He has previously worked at the Federal Reserve, the Yale Sociology Department, the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and under Katherine S. Newman, provost and professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He holds a BA from Yale University and an MRes from University College London.

Richard Carr is an Associate Professor in Public Policy and Strategy at Anglia Ruskin University. Previously, he worked in the think tank and public policy sphere. He is the author of several books including Alice in Westminster: The Political Life of Alice Bacon (2016, co-authored with Rachel Reeves MP), March of the Moderates: Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, and the Rebirth of Progressive Politics (2019) and Britain and Ireland from the Treaty to the Troubles: Independence and Interdependence, c.1921-1973 (2025). He writes in a purely personal capacity.

Elizabeth Seger is the Director of Technology policy at Demos, the UK’s leading cross-party think tank. Elizabeth is internationally recognised for her AI governance work on AI democratisation. She holds a PhD in Philosophy of Science and Technology from the University of Cambridge.

Stephen Wyber is Director of External Affairs at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions and co-founder of Knowledge Rights 21. He previously worked at the UK Embassy in Paris and the Permanent Delegation to the OECD. After undergraduate studies in the UK, he studied at the College of Europe.

John Bachelor is an economist working on growth policy. He was an economic policy advisor for the Labour Party, where he covered the treasury, business, energy, transport and science & technology briefs. Before that, he was a civil servant in the Treasury and the Department for BEIS.

Laura is a Fellow at the Centre for British Progress, a Senior Analyst at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, and Co-founder of the Better Science Project. With a PhD in Molecular Neurogenetics from the University of Cambridge, she specialises in science and technology policy, AI-driven research innovation, and neurodegenerative disease studies. Laura has contributed to leading publications shaping the future of UK science and technology.