Andy is a freelance researcher and political consultant specialising in housing, security and equality.
He has led five major inquiries on these subjects at local, regional and national levels:
- Co-chair – Islington Fairness Commission (London Borough of Islington)
- Policy lead – Counter-Terrorism: The London Debate (Metropolitan Police)
- Project manager – Security and the legal domain (Ministry of Justice)
- Secretariat head – Commission on National Security in the 21st Century (IPPR)
- Programme lead – English housing policy: a fundamental review (IPPR)
Andy is also an elected councillor in the London Borough of Islington and a community volunteer for Citizens UK, where he is a leader on the Living Wage campaign.
After studying at Oxford University, he managed an award-winning youth project for the Metropolitan police in the London Borough of Southwark and was then a policy officer at the Metropolitan Police Authority. From 2008 to 2012, he was a senior research fellow at IPPR, leading the institute’s research on security and housing.
Andy has presented his work to the prime minister and the leader of the opposition, and has appeared in all of the UK’s major broadsheet and tabloid newspapers as well as on the BBC's Today programme and Channel 4 News.
Publications
Build now or pay later? Funding new housing supply
Author(s) : Graeme Cooke, Andy Hull, Tony Dolphin
25 Oct 2011
Articles
It doesn’t have to be this way on housing - 22 Jun 2012
Author(s) : Andy Hull
New housing strategy misses a trick - 21 Nov 2011
Author(s) : Andy Hull
Affordable homes: a five-point plan - 26 Oct 2011
Author(s) : Andy Hull
More homes, but how? - 31 Aug 2011
Author(s) : Andy Hull
Future vision - 17 Jun 2011
Author(s) : Andy Hull
'Let them eat credit' is not the answer first-time buyers need - 06 Jun 2011
Author(s) : Andy Hull
Why we must end the UK’s addiction to property - 31 May 2011
Author(s) : Andy Hull
Mind the housing gap - 14 Mar 2011
Author(s) : Andy Hull
Heavy metal is so passé - 19 Oct 2010
Author(s) : Andy Hull
National security: time to get online and upstream - 19 Oct 2010
Author(s) : Andy Hull
Torture equals terror - 05 Jul 2009
Author(s) : Andy Hull
A public inquiry? - 17 Jun 2009
Author(s) : Andy Hull
Stopping bombs and standing up for what we believe in - 07 Apr 2009
Author(s) : Ian Kearns, Andy Hull








