James Plunkett

Director of Policy and Development
James is Director of Policy and Development. He oversees the Resolution Foundation’s policy work as well as developing new areas of work and partnerships. Previously, James ran the Commission on Living Standards, a wide-ranging investigation into the pressures facing people on low-to-middle incomes. He joined the Resolution Foundation in October 2010, prior to which he was a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. From 2008 to 2009 he worked in the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit at 10 Downing Street and prior to that in the Cabinet Office and as a strategy consultant in the private sector. He is a regular contributor to broadcast and print media and writes for a wide range of blogs.

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