The original editorial group has expanded with some new members and this time through a podcast series where external experts and party insiders explore the major policy issues now facing the UK and propose radical solutions.
Today’s editorial team now includes:
Chris Bowers
Chris Bowers is best known as a tennis commentator, and the biographer of Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic. He’s a former district councillor and parliamentary candidate and was the founder director of the Environmental Transport Association. He was also Nick Clegg’s biographer, co-edited ‘The Alternative’ with Caroline Lucas and Lisa Nandy, and was the lead author of the ‘New Liberal Manifesto‘.
Duncan Brack
Duncan Brack is an independent policy analyst and adviser, and an Associate of Green Alliance. From 2010 to 2012 he was a special adviser to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Chris Huhne. He is an elected member of the Liberal Democrats’ Federal Policy Committee and Editor of the Journal of Liberal History.
Robin Stafford
Robin Stafford has worked in business and management consulting, across private, public and third sectors, in the UK and overseas. Working for WWF, he led work on Green Economy. He set up and ran a council of leading economists for the party and has since provided support on business and economic matters.
Neil Stockley
Neil Stockley works as a communications and policy strategist focused on energy, transport and the digital economy. He is a former Policy Director for the Liberal Democrats and has also led working groups on climate change and net zero. Previously he was executive assistant to former New Zealand Prime Minister, David Lange.
Mike Tuffrey
Mike Tuffrey is a business sustainability expert who cofounded the consultancy Corporate Citizenship and now also serves on various boards as a non-executive director. He chairs the e-waste campaigning charity The Restart Project. He’s a former council leader, London Assembly member and Parliamentary candidate, and has undertaken diverse roles within the Liberal Democrats.
Jane Vaus
Jane Vaus is a political strategist working to advance sustainable growth. She’s worked with many environmental NGOs, think tanks, business and civil society as well as the Liberal Democrats both as a press officer and environmental researcher. She’s a Project Director at sustainability hub, a Director of PRASEG and a trustee of the Fairyland Trust.
Irina von Wiese
Irina von Wiese is a Liberal Democrat councillor and former MEP. A qualified lawyer, she is affiliate professor of international law and politics at European business school, the ESCP, and chairs the European Centre for Populism Studies. As an MEP Irina was Vice Chair of the Human Rights Subcommittee and member of the cross-party Working Group on Responsible Business Conduct.
Previously
The original editorial team in 2013 comprised Duncan Brack, Neil Stockley, Paul Burall – a writer specialising in environmental issues, especially the links between business, design and the environment, and a former local councillor – and Mike Tuffrey.