Senior Research Fellow, Social Market Foundation

James joined the Social Market Foundation in June 2009. He was previously Head of Policy & Research at the ILC-UK, which included a secondment to the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit to advise on social care and ageing issues. He read Philosophy at University College London and has Masters degrees in Comparative Politics, and in Public Policy. James has a particular interest in social care, assets and wealth, industrial policy and financial regulation. His previous publications have included ‘A National Care Fund for Long-term Care' and ‘Funding Long-term Care – The Building Blocks of Reform’. He has also conducted research with NatCen into the effects of informal care-giving on older people