Patrick Diamond is Professor of Public Policy at Queen Mary University of London and Director of the Mile End Institute. He was formally a Research Fellow in the Department of Politics at the
University of Manchester, and Gwilym Gibbon Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. He is a Visiting
Fellow at Kellogg College, Oxford and an Associate Member of Nuffield College. Patrick is on the
Scientific Council of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) and a board member of the Campaign for Social Science. He held a number of senior posts in British central government between 2000 and 2010 and was formally Head of Policy Planning in 10 Downing Street. He was a Local Councillor in the London Borough of Southwark from 2010 to 2014.