Harry Quilter-Pinner

Harry is the interim executive director at IPPR.

Prior to this Harry was director of policy and politics at IPPR, heading up our research, policy and influencing work in Westminster, and associate director for work and the welfare state at IPPR before that. He co-founded and headed up our flagship Better Health and Care programme and was lead author on the independent cross-party Lord Darzi review which shaped the NHS Long-Term Plan and recent NHS funding settlement.

He has also led the organisations work on austerity and public spending, and contributed to research on education, welfare and environmental policy. Harry writes regularly for the Guardian, Times, Independent, Telegraph, i paper, and New Statesman, as well as appearing on radio and tv, including Sky News and BBC News.

He was previously director of strategy at SCT, a homelessness and addictions charity and has worked at Global Counsel, a consultancy firm, and at the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). He has a degree in economics from the University of York.

Outside IPPR Harry is a non-executive director at West London NHS Trust.