Richard Reeves was appointed Director of the think-tank Demos in August 2008. He is also a strategy consultant, business speaker and writer. His career spans business, the media, academia, central government and the non-profit sector. Described by The Guardian as ‘Britain’s leading expert on workplace trends’, Richard is the co-founder of Intelligence Agency, an ideas consultancy, and has worked with Accenture, ICI, Microsoft, Orange, PricewaterhouseCoopers, BT, the NHS, GE Capital and a wide range of other organisations on corporate strategy and organisational change.
Richard is a columnist and editor at large for Management Today, an essayist for the New Statesman and writes regularly for The Guardian, Prospect and other publications. He speaks frequently on a broad range of topics including the well-being, the future of work, motivation, diversity, working time and leadership. He has taught on Senior Executive Programme and MBA Programme at London Business School.
Richard is the author of John Stuart Mill – Victorian Firebrand, an intellectual biography of Britain’s greatest liberal, which has been shortlisted for the C4 Political Books of the Year and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He is also author of Happy Mondays – putting the pleasure back into work, nominated as a Sunday Times business book of the week, as well as a number of research papers for the Work Foundation on trust, working time and gender equality.
Former Economics Correspondent of the Guardian and Society Editor of the Observer, Richard has won a number of prizes for his journalism. In the first year of the Labour Government, he worked as principal policy adviser to the Minister for Welfare Reform and has also been a research fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research, one of the UK’s premier think-tanks, and the University of London.
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