"A refreshing addition to the world of think-tanks" Daily Telegraph, 18/10/2007
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ABOUT US
PROGRESSIVE vision was established by Shane Frith and Mark Littlewood in October 2007. The founders have a strong history in party politics, but believe that a more objective approach is required to develop policies that will make a real difference.
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Director: Shane Frith Shane has worked for a number of London based think tanks, including Reform, Open Europe and the Centre for Policy Studies, since moving from his native New Zealand. He is also the founder and Director of Doctors’ Alliance, a pan-European network of medical professionals seeking better ways to deliver healthcare. He has regularly appeared on television and radio in New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom, including the BBC Politics Show, Bloomberg TV and BBC Radio. |
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From 2002 until 2004, Shane was Chairman of the International Young Democrat Union, an organisation that links young people involved in centre-right politics. He has been a parliamentary candidate for the New Zealand National Party and has worked as a consultant for a number of Members of Parliament both in Britain and New Zealand.
He is a regular speaker internationally on coalition building and a variety of policy areas.
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Director of Communications: Mark Littlewood Mark was Head of Media for the Liberal Democrats from December 2004 to May 2007. Previously, he was Campaigns Director of human rights group Liberty from June 2001 until April 2004. In 2004, he was co-founder, and first national coordinator of NO2ID, Britain’s leading pressure group opposing the introduction of national identity cards. He has been Chairman of NO2ID since 2006. |
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In 1999, Mark was Communications Director for the Pro Euro Conservative Party, a breakaway from the Conservative Party which ran a separate list in the 1999 European Parliamentary elections. From 1995 to 1999, he worked in a number of capacities for the all-party European Movement.
Mark has also been a media consultant for the Environment Agency in 2000 and for TfL’s London Bus Initiative in 2001.
Mark appears regularly in the national media as a spokesman and commentator – particularly on civil liberties issues and European affairs.
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Fellow:
Keith Boyfield Keith is an economist and writer who specialises in marketing, competition and regulatory policy. He runs a City consultancy advising multinational companies, non profit organisations and charities. He is the executive director of Leriba Risk, a consultancy assisting business and investment in Africa. He is a fellow of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) and chairman of the IEA's Shadow Regulatory Policy Committee; and a research fellow of the Centre for Policy Studies. |
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Keith has written and consulted extensively on competition policy, marketing and advertising issues. He is a regular contributor to the editorial sections of the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and other leading newspapers; and a columnist for Acquisitions Monthly.
www.keithboyfieldassociates.com
www.leribarisk.com
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Fellow: Dr Mark Pennington Mark is Senior Lecturer in Political Economy in the Department of Politics, Queen Mary, University of London. His research interests include the philosophical foundations of classical liberal economics, the politics of public sector reform and the theory and practice of environmental regulation. He has published widely in academic journals, including publications such as Political Studies, New Political Economy, Policy and Politics, and Environmental Politics. Mark is currently working on a new book entitled Towards the Minimal State: Classical Liberalism and Public Policy, which is due for publication in 2008. |
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Fellow: Professor John Spiers John is a Visiting Professor at the University of Glamorgan. He was appointed in 2001 to the Board of the new National Care Standards Commission, on which he served until 2004. Professor Spiers appointed the first-ever Patient’s Advocate in an NHS Hospital, in 1991. This became a model for the NHS. He took a First Class Honours degree in History at the University of Sussex. In 1969, whilst a graduate student there, he founded the scholarly prize-winning book publishing firm The Harvester Press, which he ran for nearly 20 years. The firm won the Queen’s Award for Export Achievement in 1986, being only the third publisher to do so. Since the late 1980’s he has devoted most of his time to writing and lecturing, in various public roles in health, education and the arts. |
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Fellow: Professor Jim Thornton Jim has been Professor of obstetrics and gynaecology, at Nottingham University and consultant at Nottingham University Hospitals for seven years. Previously he was a consultant in Leeds. He qualified in medicine in 1977 from Leeds University. Between 1979 and 1983 he worked in Chogoria, a Church of Scotland mission hospital in Kenya. His primary research interest is in clinical trials and he is currently deputy director of the Nottingham Clinical Trials Support Unit, and a member of the Medical Research Councils Health Service Research Board. He was previously editor-in-chief of the European and British Journals of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. He is a founder member of Doctors for Reform, and previously on the advisory boards of the IEA Health and Welfare Unit and Civitas. In 2005 he was the Conservative Party’s parliamentary candidate for Nottingham East. |
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