Ashwin leads IPPR's research and policy teams, and is also professor of social policy at Manchester Metropolitan University.
His area of expertise focuses on analysis and modelling of incomes, poverty and the labour market.
He has previously worked as the Chief Economist at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, a Senior Economic Adviser at the Department for Work and Pensions, rail director of the consumer watchdog Passenger Focus, and as an economic adviser to Gordon Brown, supporting him in his post-prime-ministerial work for the World Economic Forum.
He has also served as a non-executive director of a number of the National Housing Federation and the homelessness charity St Mungo’s. He is the author of Idleness, a study of low pay in Britain.
