Claire Ainsley

Claire is a Senior Fellow at the Institute. She also directs the Project on Center-Left Renewal at the Washington DC-based Progressive Policy Institute.

From 2020–22 she was Executive Director of Policy to Keir Starmer, Leader of the Opposition and the UK Labour Party. Prior to this, she was Executive Director of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. She writes and broadcasts regularly in the UK and international media on politics and policy.