Laurie Laybourn
Associate FellowLaurie is an associate fellow at IPPR and is leading a project on how future leaders can navigate the worsening environmental crisis.
Laurie led IPPR's 2018-2020 Responding to Environmental Breakdownprogramme, which won a 2019 Prospect Think Tank of the Year award, and also worked on the IPPR Environmental Justice Commission and the Commission on Economic Justice.
Laurie is also a Visiting Fellow at Chatham House and the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter. Previously, he was the Director of the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change and was the co-founding Executive Director of the Economic Change Unit. Laurie has also worked at the Grantham Institute at the London School of Economics and the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) at Oxford University, in the House of Lords, and as an NHS campaigner. He has a MPhil in economics and a BSc in physics.
His areas of expertise include:
- The climate and wider environmental crisis
- The challenge facing future leaders from the worsening environmental crisis
- How shifts occur in economic ideas and policies
- Digital platforms
- Transport and the mobility transition
Related items
Realism and progress: How should the UK think about international policy in 2024?
Given the current polls, the Labour party looks set to form the next government. It has taken the temperature of the country and, whereas in 1997 its leaders put hope at the heart of their campaign, this time they have chosen to focus on…Rock bottom: Low investment in the UK economy
The UK’s investment performance is still worse than every other G7 country, new data shows.There is an alternative to traditional ways of delivering social and economic value
Our new report An alternative is possible: Measuring the impact of cooperatives puts forward a new framework for measuring the value that cooperative organisations deliver to local economies.