The Orwell Prize is administered by the Orwell Trust, the board of The Political Quarterly, and the Media Standards Trust. You can find out more about the Trustees and Board Members below. Colin Crouch is the Professor of Governance and Public Management at the University of Warwick, having previously been a Reader in Sociology at the LSE, a Fellow and Tutor in Politics at Trinity College, Oxford, Professor of Sociology at the University of Oxford and Professor of Comparative Social Institutions at the European University Institute, Florence. He is Chairman, and a former joint editor, of The Political Quarterly, and past President of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE). A Fellow of the British Academy and an External Scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for Social Research at Cologne, his particular research interests include the structure of European societies, with special reference to labour market, gender and family issues; economic sociology; neo-institutional analysis; local economic development; and public service reform. Steve Ball is the Field Chair for, and Senior Lecturer in, Publishing at Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies, Oxford Brookes University. In the 1970s, and early 1980s, he was Editor of social sciences, humanities, technical and trade titles for a range of UK publishers, and a freelance editor and proofreader for companies including OUP, CUP, Blackwell, and Macmillan. In 1984, he became Senior Desk Editor in Humanities and Social Sciences at Basil Blackwell, and Associate Commissioning Editor for their environment, geography, agriculture and forestry lists. Since 1987, he has worked as an independent contractor for a wide range of UK publishing clients. He was a founder member of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders, and is currently the Assistant Editor of The Political Quarterly (as well as being Company Secretary for The Political Quarterly Publishing Co Ltd.). Shami Chakrabarti has been Director of Liberty (The National Council for Civil Liberties) since September 2003. Shami first joined Liberty as In-House Counsel on 10 September 2001. She became heavily involved in its engagement with the ‘War on Terror’ and with the defence and promotion of human rights values in Parliament, the Courts and wider society. A Barrister by background, she was called to the Bar in 1994 and worked as a lawyer in the Home Office from 1996 until 2001 for Governments of both persuasions. Since becoming Liberty’s Director she has written, spoken and broadcast widely on the importance of the post-WW2 human rights framework as an essential component of democratic society. She is a Governor of the London School of Economics and the British Film Institute, a Visiting Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford and a Master of the Bench of Middle Temple. She is thirty eight years old and lives with her husband and five year old son in London. Stephanie Flanders succeeded Evan Davis as the BBC's Economics Editor in March 2008, and was previously Economics Editor for BBC Newsnight (from October 2002). She worked as a speech writer and senior advisor to Lawrence H. Summers at the US Treasury (1997-2001), reporter for the New York Times(2001), and principal editor of the UN's 2002 Human Development Report. Before heading off to America, she was a leader writer and economics columnist with theFT in London and an economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and London Business School. Stephanie was named Broadcast Journalist of the Year at the 2005 Workworld Media Awards and was elected to the governing council of the Royal Economic Society in April 2007. Sir Lawrence Freedman has been Professor of War Studies at King's College, London since 1982. He has recently been appointed Vice-Principal (Research) at King's. He was educated at Whitley Bay Grammar School and the Universities of Manchester, York and Oxford. Before joining King's he held research appointments at Nuffield College Oxford, IISS and the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1995 and awarded the CBE in 1996, he was appointed Official Historian of the Falklands Campaign in 1997. He has written extensively on nuclear strategy and the cold war, as well as commentating regularly on contemporary security issues. His most recent books include an Adelphi Paper on The Revolution in Strategic Affairs, an edited book onStrategic Coercion, an illustrated book on The Cold War, a collection of essays on British defence policy and Kennedy's Wars that covers the major crises of the early 1960s over Berlin, Cuba and Vietnam. In addition a book on deterrence was published in 2004 and the Official History of the Falklands Campaign was published in the summer of 2005. Andrew Gamble is Professor of Politics at the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and joint editor of The Political Quarterly and New Political Economy. His most recent book is Between Europe and America: The Future of British Politics which was awarded the WJM Mackenzie Prize. In 2005 he received the Isaiah Berlin Prize for Lifetime contribution to Political Studies. Timothy Garton Ash is the author of eight books of political writing or ‘history of the present’ which have charted the transformation of Europe over the last quarter-century. He is Professor of European Studies at the University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His essays appear regularly in the New York Review of Books and he writes a weekly column in The Guardianwhich is widely syndicated in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Will Hutton has written a weekly column for more than 15 years: six years at theGuardian and nine years at the Observer. In addition he has made a number ofPanorama programmes for the BBC and various radio and television series (The City, Radio 4, 1996; The Venturers, BBC2, 1987). His day job for the last six years has been as chief executive of the Work Foundation, an independent, not for dividend research-based consultancy that is one of the most influential voices on work, workplace and employment issues in Britain. He began his career as a stockbroker and investment analyst, before working in BBC TV and radio as a producer and reporter. He was economics editor of BBCNewsnight from 1983-88 and editor in chief of the satellite European Business Channel from 1988-90. He then joined the Guardian as economics editor in 1990, before moving to the Observer as editor in 1996 and later editor-in-chief. Will has written several bestselling economic books, including The World We're In (2002) (launched in the US as A Declaration of Interdependence), The State We're In(1996), The State to Come (1997), The Stakeholding Society (1999), On The Edge(ed. with Anthony Giddens) (2000) and The Revolution That Never Was (1987). His new book on China and the west, The Writing on the Wall will be published in January 2007. In addition, he won the Political Journalist of the Year award in 1993. He was invited by the EU commission to join a high-level group on the mid-term review of the Lisbon strategy and acted as rapporteur for the report published in November 2004. He is a member of the Scott Trust, a governor of the LSE, a school governor and a visiting professor at Bristol University. He is married with three children. Michael Jacobs is a member of the Council of Economic Advisers at HM Treasury. He is an environmental economist, author of The Green Economy and The Politics of the Real World, and was formerly General Secretary of the Fabian Society and a research fellow at the London School of Economics and the Centre for the Study of Environmental Change, Lancaster University. Julian Le Grand is the Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. From 2003 to 2005 he was seconded to Number 10 Downing Street as Senior Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine, a Senior Associate of the King's Fund, and a Founding Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences. In 2006 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Sussex. He currently holds two Government chairmanships: Chairman of Health England: the National Reference Group for Health and Well Being for the Department of Health; and Chairman of the Social Care Practices Working Group for the Department for Education and Skills. He is also a member of the Group of Societal Policy Analysts advising President Jose Barroso of the European Commission. As well as these positions, he has acted as an adviser to the World Bank, the World Health Organisation, HM Treasury, the Department of Work and Pensions and the BBC. He has been vice-chairman of a major teaching hospital, a commissioner on the Commission for Health Improvement, and a non-executive director of several health authorities. He has served on many NHS working parties, on several think-tank commissions and on two grants boards of the Economic and Social Research Council. He is the author, co-author or editor of seventeen books and over ninety articles on economics, philosophy and public policy. His most recent book, Motivation, Agency and Public Policy: of Knights and Knaves, Pawns and Queens (Oxford University Press, 2006), was described by the Economist as ‘short, accessible - and profound’. He was one of Prospect magazine’s 100 top British public intellectuals, and one of the ESRC’s ten Heroes of Dissemination. He is one of the principal architects of the UK Government’s current public service reforms introducing choice and competition into health care and education. In addition, he was the originator (sole or joint) of several recent developments in UK and international social policy, including the ‘baby bond’ or Child Trust Fund, the Partnership Scheme for funding long term care endorsed by the 2005 Wanless Report Securing Good Care for Older People, the Disadvantage Premium for the education of children from less well off families and for looked after children, and the Social Work Practice proposed in the 2006 Department for Education and Skills Green Paper, Care Matters. He writes regularly for the national and international press. He also appears frequently on television and radio, including the Today Programme, The World at One, The World Tonight and The Politics Show. He has been several times a member of Radio 4’s Any Questions panel and has presented editions of Radio 4’sAnalysis and BBC 2’s The Big Idea. John Lloyd is the Director of Journalism at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, a Contributing Editor for the Financial Times and a columnist for La Repubblica of Rome. At the FT, he has been Labour Editor, Industrial Editor, East European Editor and Moscow Bureau Chief. In 2003, he launched and edited (till 2005) the FT Magazine. He is a member of the board of Prospect magazine, and of the Moscow School of Political Studies. He is a supernumerary Fellow of St Anne’s College Oxford and a Visiting Professor at the School of Journalism at City University. He has won awards as Journalist of the Year, Specialist Writer of the Year, and the David Watt Prize. He has been editor of the New Statesman in the 1980s and of Time Out in the 1970s. He has worked for Weekend World, the London Programme (LWT) and for Independent Radio News. His books include Loss without Limit: the British Miners’ Strike; Rebirth of a Nation: an Anatomy of Russia; and What the Media are Doing to our Politics. He is married with one son, and lives in London. Professor Joni Lovenduski BSc, MA, PhD, FBA is Anniversary Professor of Politics at Birkbeck College. She is the Director of the MSc/MRes degree in Politics and Government and Director of the Research Students Programme. She is an established authority on gender and political representation, on which she has written or edited many books, reports and journal articles including, most recently Feminizing Politics (Polity, 2005) and State Feminism and Political Representation (Cambridge University Press, 2005). Currently, she is researching the implications of combining equality policy in the EU, political representation, and gendered ceremony and ritual in parliament. David Marquand was a Labour MP and a Chief Adviser in the European Commission before holding Professorships of Politics at the Universities of Salford and Sheffield. His last post was Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford, and since his retirement he has been a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Politics at Oxford. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and was awarded the Sir Isaiah Berlin Prize for a Lifetime Contribution to Political Studies in 2001. His last book was Decline of the Public (Polity Press). Ed Miliband is Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. He is responsible for helping to coordinate work across government, and leads the government's efforts to tackle social exclusion, support the third sector and coordinate the improvement of public services. From 2006 to 2007 he was Minister for the Third Sector, supporting charities, social enterprises and community organisations. He was elected Labour MP for Doncaster North in May 2005. Previously he was Chair of HM Treasury's Council of Economic Advisers, advising the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, on long–term policy development. Before that, as a special adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer after May 1997, he worked across a range of economic and social policy areas, including taxation, public spending, and labour market issues. In 2003, he was a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Government at Harvard University and a Visiting Scholar at the Center for European Studies. He holds an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and a BA from Oxford University. Geoff Mulgan is director of the Young Foundation, a centre for social innovation based in London. Under Michael Young the foundation initiated dozens of new organisations and initiatives including the Open University, International Alert andWhich?, patient-led healthcare and schools for social entrepreneurs. Today its work encompasses research, publications, local projects in nearly 30 areas, running investment funds and teams in health and education, and coordinating an international network of organisations involved in social innovation in over 40 countries. Between 1997 and 2004 Geoff had various roles in the UK government including director of the Government’s Strategy Unit and head of policy in the Prime Minister’s office. Before that he was the founder and director of the think-tank Demos and chief adviser to Gordon Brown MP. He has also worked in local government, the European Commission, and as a reporter for BBC TV and radio. He is a visiting professor at LSE, UCL and Melbourne University; on the boards of the Work Foundation and the Design Council; and chair of Involve and of the Carnegie Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society. He is thinker in residence with the government of South Australia; fellow of the Australia New Zealand School of Government; and has advised many governments around the world, particularly in Europe and Asia. His most recent book is Good and Bad Power: the Ideals and Betrayals of Government (Penguin, 2007). Anne Phillips joined the LSE in 1999 as Professor of Gender Theory, and was Director of the Gender Institute until September 2004. She subsequently moved to a joint appointment between the Gender Institute and Government Department. She is a leading figure in feminist political theory, and writes on issues of democracy and representation, equality, multiculturalism, and difference. Much of her work can be read as challenging the narrowness of contemporary liberal theory. In 1992, she was co-winner of the American Political Science Association's Victoria Schuck Award for Best Book on Women and Politics published in 1991 (awarded for Engendering Democracy). She was awarded an honorary Doctorate from the University of Aalborg in 1999; was appointed Adjunct Professor in the Political Science Programme of the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, 2002-6; and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2003. Dr Meg Russell is a Senior Research Fellow at the Constitution Unit, School of Public Policy, University College London. She teaches British and comparative politics, and her research interests include parliaments and parliamentary reform, political parties, and women's representation in politics. Meg has published two books: Reforming the House of Lords: Lessons from Overseas (OUP, 2000) andBuilding New Labour: the Politics of Party Organisation (Palgrave, 2005). She was formerly a Special Adviser to Robin Cook when he was Leader of the House of Commons, and is a member of the Fabian Society executive. Donald Sasson is the Literary Editor of The Political Quarterly since 2000. Born in Cairo, he was educated in France, Italy, the UK and the USA, and is currently Professor of European Comparative History at Queen Mary, University of London. Among his published works are One Hundred Years of Socialism (Deutscher Prize 1997), Mona Lisa (translated into ten languages), The Culture of the Europeans(2006) and Mussolini and the Rise of Fascism (2007). Jean Seaton is Professor of Media History at the University of Westminster. She has written on the history and role of the media in politics, wars, revolutions, religion and childhood, including Power Without Responsibility: the Press and Broadcasting in Britain (with James Curran) and has recently published Carnage and the Media: the Making and Reporting of News about Violence, and (with John Lloyd) What Can Be Done? Making the Media and Politics Better. She is working on the Official History of the BBC between 1974-1987. She is reports editor ofPolitical Quarterly, was married to Ben Pimlott, lives in London and has three sons. Polly Toynbee is a political and social commentator on The Guardian. She was the Social Affairs Editor at the BBC, and has worked for the Observer, The Independent and The Washington Monthly, USA. Her books include: A Working Life, a study of unskilled work; Hospital, a study of the NHS; Lost Children: Stroy of Adopted Children Searching for Their Mothers; and, more recently, Hard Work: Life in Low Pay Britain. Together with David Walker she wrote Did Things Get Better?: An Audit of Labour's Successes and Failures and Better or Worse?: Has Labour Delivered? auditing Labour's first two terms. She has won the Orwell Prize, Columnist of the Year at the National Press Awards and the Political Studies Association's Political Journalist of the Year award. She is president of the Social Policy Association, and Chair of the Brighton and Hove Arts Festival. She is a visiting fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford and sits on the board of the Political Quarterly. She has four children and lives in Lambeth. Tony Wright was first elected to the House of Commons in 1992 as Labour MP for Cannock and Burntwood, and since 1997 he has been the MP for Cannock Chase. As well as conducting his parliamentary duties representing Cannock Chase, Tony has taken on a number of other roles in Parliament. From 1997 to 1998, he served as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the former Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine. Since 1999 Dr Wright has chaired the Public Administration Select Committee. PASC considers reports from the Commissioner for Administration, the Health Service Commissioners and the Parliamentary Ombudsman and matter relating to the quality and standards of administration provided by civil service departments. Along with the 29 other Select Committee chairs, Tony is a member of the Liaison Committee, whose duties include considering matters relating to the work of the Select Committees and hearing evidence from the Prime Minister on matters of public policy. He currently co-chairs the Constitution, Parliament and Citizenship Associate Parliamentary Group and is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for British Politics at Hull University. He has also chaired the Centre for Public Scrutiny and the Fabian Society, and co-chaired the Campaign for Freedom of Information. As well as co-editing The Political Quarterly, Dr Wright is the author of many books, articles and pamphlets. Recent publications include British Politics: A Very Short Introduction (2003), the Fabian pamphlet A New Social Contract: From Targets to Rights in Public Services, and Restating the State? (co-editor, 2004). Before entering Parliament, Dr Wright was Reader in Politics at the University of Birmingham, where he is now an Honorary Professor. He was educated at the London School of Economics and Balliol College, Oxford, and was a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard.Who's Who
Colin Crouch – Chairman of The Political Quarterly
Professor of Governance, University of WarwickSteve Ball – Political Quarterly, Assistant Editor and Company Secretary
Senior Lecturer, Publishing, Oxford Brookes UniversityShami Chakrabarti – Political Quarterly Board Member
Director, LibertyStephanie Flanders – Political Quarterly Board Member
Economics Editor, BBC NewsSir Lawrence Freedman – Political Quarterly Board Member
Professor of War Studies, King's College, LondonAndrew Gamble – Political Quarterly Board Member, Editor
Professor of Politics, University of CambridgeTimothy Garton Ash – Political Quarterly Board Member
Professor of European Studies, University of OxfordWill Hutton – Political Quarterly Board Member
Chief Executive, The Work FoundationMichael Jacobs – Political Quarterly Board Member
Economic Adviser, HM TreasuryJulian Le Grand – Political Quarterly Board Member
Professor of Social Policy, LSEJohn Lloyd – Political Quarterly Board Member
Director, Reuters Insitute, OxfordJoni Lovenduski – Political Quarterly Board Member
Professor of Politics, Birkbeck CollegeDavid Marquand – Political Quarterly Board Member
Visiting Fellow, University of OxfordEd Miliband MP – Political Quarterly Board Member
Minister, Cabinet OfficeGeoff Mulgan – Political Quarterly Board Member
Director, Young FoundationAnne Phillips – Political Quarterly Board Member
Professor of Gender Theory, LSEMeg Russell – Political Quarterly Board Member
Senior Research Fellow, UCL Constitution UnitDonald Sassoon – Political Quarterly Board Member, Literary Editor (for Reviews)
Literary Editor, Political QuarterlyJean Seaton – Director of the Orwell Prize, Orwell Trustee, Political Quarterly Board Member and Reports and Surveys Editor
Professor of Media History, University of WestminsterPolly Toynbee – Orwell Trustee, Political Quarterly Board Member
Commentator, The GuardianTony Wright MP – Political Quarterly Board Member, Editor
Member of Parliament, Cannock Chase
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