Charles Leadbeater is a leading authority on innovation and creativity and one of the top management thinkers. He has written a number of books including We-think: the Power of Mass Creativity; Living on Thin Air; Up the Down Escalator and In Search of Work. He wrote the first British report on the rise of social entrepreneurship, which has since become a global movement. His report on the potential for the web to generate social change led to the creation of the Social Innovation Camp movement.

He has advised a wide range of organisations on innovation including the BBC, Vodafone, Microsoft, Ericsson, Channel Four Television and the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has also worked extensively as a senior government adviser, including for the Number 10 Policy Unit, the Department for Trade and Industry and the European Commission.

A visiting senior fellow at the British National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts, he is also a longstanding senior research associate with the thinktank Demos and a visiting fellow at Oxford University's Said Business School and the Young Foundation. He is co-founder of Participle, the public service innovation agency.

Charles spent 10 years working for the Financial Times where he was Labour Editor, Industrial Editor and Tokyo Bureau Chief before becoming the paper's Features Editor. In 1994 he moved to the Independent as assistant editor in charge of features.

Publications

It's cooperation, stupid

Author(s) : Charles Leadbeater

07 Mar 2012

Going for Growth

25 Feb 2011

The Inclusive Society Tackling poverty

06 Jan 1998