Our team
We are a group of thinkers and practitioners working on joined-up, evidence-based, political thinking to help shape the future of liberal democracy.
Please note, Prepolitica publications do not necessarily reflect the personal views of individual members of the Board of Advisors or the Academic Advisory Board
Founder / Lead Researcher
Nathan Murphy
Nathan is an entrepreneur, thinker and writer. He is currently working on a book about ideas and ideology. In the past, he has invented medical products, lobbied for prison reform, and created technology businesses.
Academic Advisor
Angelica Kaufmann
Angelica is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Mind & Cognition of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Prior to this, she held the position of Research Associate at the Cognition in Action Unit at the University of Milan.
She studied logic and philosophy of science at the University of Milan, philosophy of mind at the University of Edinburgh, and completed a PhD at the Centre for Philosophical Psychology at Antwerp University.
Board of Advisors
Imad Ahmed
Imad is an Honorary Research Fellow at UCL, from where he completed his PhD in Infrastructure Economics. He is a member of the Liberal International Climate Justice Committee, an Executive Member of Liberal International British Group and on the academic board of the Paddy Ashdown Forum. He works as a climate advisor at the Tony Blair Institute.
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Simon Gentry
Simon Gentry is one of the most experienced public affairs specialists in London. In a long career bridging business and politics, Simon has worked with CEOs, Boards, senior communications professionals, UK Ministers and MPs, EU Commissioners and MEPs, elected representatives and regulators and officials in London, Brussels and across Europe on a diverse range of challenges.
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Andrew Barnett
Andrew is a public servant and social entrepreneur with three decades of experience working across different sectors to bring positive change to the lives of underserved citizens and communities. He champions putting collaboration and people-centred innovation at the heart of governance, strategy and communications and focuses on this in his consulting work.
Andrew was the director of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation for 15 years and helped establish the Campaign to End Loneliness, the Making Every Adult Matter coalition and the Marine CoLab. He helped found the Arts and Homeless International global network and was a founding director of the Social Innovation Exchange (SIX) and of Collaborate CIC. Prior to this, he held senior roles at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, HSBC Bank, and Arts Council of England.