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You are here Our people Nick Pearce
 
Nick Pearce

Nick Pearce

Director

Phone: +44 (0)20 7470 6132
Email: n.pearce@ippr.org
Twitter: @IPPR_NickP
 

Areas of expertise

  • Future of social democracy
  • Social justice
  • Public service reform
  • Welfare reform
  • Identity politics
  • Policymaking in government

Nick Pearce rejoined IPPR as Director in September 2010 after two years as Head of the Policy Unit at Number 10. An author and regular commentator on public policy, his recent broadcast appearances include BBC Newsnight, Channel 4 News and Radio 4 Analysis. Recent articles have been published in the Guardian, Financial Times and Prospect, among many others. His books include Politics for a New Generation, Social Justice: Building a fairer Britain, Tomorrow's Citizens and Wasted Youth.

In addition to running the Downing Street Policy Unit, Nick has worked as an advisor in the Home Office, the Cabinet Office and the former Department for Education and Employment. He was formerly Chair of the Advisory Board to the UK Chief Scientist's Foresight progamme and served on the Equalities Review and the Teaching & Learning 2020 Review. He is currently a member of the board of the Royal Institute of British Architects Trust and the UK-India Roundtable. He was educated at the Universities of Manchester and Oxford.

 

Publications

Public Services at the Crossroads

24 Sep 2007

Politics for a New Generation

14 May 2007

Politics for a New Generation

14 May 2007

Freedom's Orphans: Raising youth in a changing world

Author(s) : Mike Dixon, Howard Reed, Julia Margo, Nick Pearce

06 Nov 2006

Social Justice Building a fairer Britain

06 Jun 2005

Quiet Revolution: Progressive government in South America

Author(s) : Nick Pearce

01 Feb 2005

Tomorrow's Citizens

01 Jan 2000

Piloting the University for Industry: Report of the North East Project

Author(s) : Nick Pearce, Helen Milner, Josh Hillman, Michael Thorne

02 Jan 1999

Wasted Youth Raising achievement and tackling social exclusion

Author(s) : Nick Pearce, Josh Hillman

07 Jan 1998

 

Articles

Foreign students are key to UK prosperity - 14 May 2012

Author(s) : Nick Pearce, Jo Johnson

To the point - Stand up for women - 14 May 2012

Author(s) : Nick Pearce

An alternative Queen's speech - 08 May 2012

Author(s) : Nick Pearce

To the Point - Where is the vision? - 16 Apr 2012

Author(s) : Nick Pearce

Memo from Tokyo: what Japan can teach us - 10 Apr 2012

Author(s) : Nick Pearce

Beyond social mobility - 29 Mar 2012

Author(s) : Nick Pearce

New times, new thinking - 23 Mar 2012

Author(s) : Nick Pearce

Obamanomics offers just what Osborne needs - 13 Mar 2012

Author(s) : Nick Pearce, Eric Beinhocker

To the point - Serve the common good - 05 Mar 2012

Author(s) : Nick Pearce

It's about re-shaping the Union - 21 Feb 2012

Author(s) : Nick Pearce

Think Tank - 20 Feb 2012

Author(s) : Nick Pearce

Britain’s elites must learn how the other half lives - 17 Feb 2012

Author(s) : Nick Pearce

To the point - Why favour the wealthy? - 06 Feb 2012

Author(s) : Nick Pearce

Latest job figures raise serious doubts about the Government’s economic plans - 15 Dec 2011

Author(s) : Nick Pearce

A little goes a long way - 17 Nov 2011

Author(s) : Nick Pearce

Forecasting Gloom: Osborne's Spending Review, One year on - 20 Oct 2011

Author(s) : Nick Pearce

Ed Miliband should aim to fundamentally change Britain - 23 Sep 2011

Author(s) : James Purnell, Nick Pearce

Rediscovering Prudence - 23 Sep 2011

Author(s) : Nick Pearce

I predict a riot… - 20 Sep 2011

Author(s) : Nick Pearce

Nordic resilience - 26 Jul 2011

Author(s) : Nick Pearce

Parlez-vous francais? - 25 Jul 2011

Author(s) : Nick Pearce

Public Service Reform: The response - 25 Jul 2011

Author(s) : Nick Pearce

Labour intensive - 05 Jul 2011

Author(s) : Nick Pearce

Being born into porn - 14 Jun 2011

Author(s) : Nick Pearce

A Nordic route through Britain's care crisis - 01 Jun 2011

Author(s) : Nick Pearce

Play can make us equal - 18 May 2011

Author(s) : Nick Pearce

Can Ed Miliband reform the NHS, not just save it? - 04 Apr 2011

Author(s) : Nick Pearce

Better for less? - 31 Mar 2011

Author(s) : Nick Pearce

Growth plans stuck in the 1980s - 23 Mar 2011

Author(s) : Nick Pearce

Conservative is the new radical - 03 Mar 2011

Author(s) : Nick Pearce