Our Team
The Resolution Foundation has a small staff team, led by our Chief Executive, Gavin Kelly, and a board of trustees
Sophia Parker
Resolution Foundation Research Associate
Sophia is currently based at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, where she is a Research Associate. Until September 2010 she was Acting Director of the Resolution Foundation, having joined the Foundation in May 2009 as Research and Policy Director. Before that, she worked with Kent County Council to set up their unique Social Innovation Lab, where she published Just Coping: a new perspective on low income families. Previously, Sophia was deputy director of thinktank Demos, leading their work on public service reform and families. She has also worked as a civil servant at the Women and Equality Unit. Sophia is a committee member of the Fabian Women’s Network, and an associate at ESRO, an ethnographic research agency.
Katherine Green
Former Director of Communications
From 2010 - 2012 Katherine was responsible for the Foundation's external communications, its partnerships with others and the strategic direction of the organisation. Prior to joining the team, Katherine was at HM Treasury for 10 years, working on a range of issues including financial services, productivity and adult skills and was responsible for co-ordinating the annual Pre-Budget and Budget reports from 2005-2007. She most recently led the team responsible for delivering tax policy to support businesses through the recession.
Sue Regan
Trustee and Former Chief Executive
Sue Regan was Chief Executive of the Resolution Foundation from December 2005 to january 2010. Sue currently lives in Australia, is a trustee of the Foundation and regularly contributes to our blog.
Donald Hirsch
Donald Hirsch is an Associate Fellow of the Resolution Foundation and is Director of the Centre for Research in Social Policy at Loughborough University
Professor John Van Reenen
Professor Van Reenen's interests lie in the impact of innovation on jobs, skills, wages and productivity. He also works in the areas of labour markets, competition policy, industrial economics, health systems and econometrics.
Steven Roberts
Dr Steven Roberts is a lecturer in the Education School at the University of Southampton. After five years in various management positions in the retail sector, he undertook his first degree in Industrial Relations/ Human Resource Management and Social Policy at the University of Kent. He was then awarded a fully funded ESRC 1 + 3 studentship to undertake his MA in Research Methods and a subsequent PhD in Social Policy. His PhD was an in-depth qualitative analysis of the transition to adulthood of ordinary and often overlooked young people. With the broad notion of youth transitions still serving as a significant influence, his current primary research interests include work based learning provision in the service sector and the experience of non-traditional students in Higher Education.
Alan Manning
Professor Alan Manning is Head of the Economics Department at the London School of Economics where he has taught since 1989. He is one of the UK’s leading labour market economists and has published widely on the impacts of the minimum wage, monopsony, immigration and technological change on wages and employment.
Professor Anna Vignoles
Professor Anna Vignoles is a Professor in the Economics of Education at the Institute Of Education and a Deputy Director of the Centre for the Analysis for Youth Transitions (a DfE funded research centre). She has published widely on the value of skills and qualifications in the labour market. Her research interests include issues pertaining to equity in education, education efficiency and finance and the economic value of schooling.
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