Our contributors
Parliamentary Brief is respected by government, parliament and political media at the highest levels because of the unrivalled authority and clarity that our contributors bring to bear on the key subjects of the day. Below are just some of the distinguished figures who have written for us in recent months.
Banking
- Rosa Lastra, Professor of International Financial and Monetary Law at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London
- Angela Knight, Chief Executive of the British Bankers' Association
- Michael Rush, Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Exeter
Energy and climate
- Jonathan Stern, Director of Gas Research at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
- Gordon MacKerron, Professor and Director of the Sussex Energy Group at the University of Sussex
- Bridget Woodman, Lecturer in Sustainable Energy Policy, University of Exeter
- Fiona Harvey, Environment Correspondent for The Times
- Malcolm Grimston, Associate fellow with the Sustainable Development Programme at Chatham House
- Michael Pollitt, Assistant Director of the Electricity Policy Research Group at the University of Cambridge
- Brenda Boardman, Author of 'Fixing fuel poverty: challenges and solutions'
- Paul Dickinson, Co-founder of the Carbon Disclosure Project
- Jonathan Shopley, Executive Director of the Carbon Neutral Company
- Stephen Thomas, Professor of Energy Policy at the University of Greenwich
- George Yarrow, Chairman of the Regulatory Policy Institute
- Simon Hughes, Deputy Leader, Liberal Democrat Party
- Pierre Noel, Director of the Energy Policy Forum, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
Defence
- Christopher Dandeker, Professor of the Department of War Studies at King's College London
- Eric Grove, Director of the Centre for International Security and War Studies at the University of Salford
- Andrew Dorman, Senior Lecturer in the Defence Studies Department, King's College London
- Paul Cornish, Professor of International Affairs, Chatham House, London
Afghanistan
- Sultan Barakat, Post-war Reconstruction and Development Unit, University of York
- Sultan Barakat, Post-war Reconstruction and Development Unit, University of York
- Anthony King, University of Essex
- Anna Larson, Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, Kabul
- Nader Nadery, Commissioner, Independent Human Rights Commission, Kabul
Health and welfare
- Donald Hirsch, independent consultant and writer on social policy
- Nick Bosanquet, Professor of Health Policy, Imperial College
- Alan Maynard, Professor of Health Economics at the University of York
- Eileen Munro, Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics
Constitutional renewal
- Andrew Blick, Senior Research Fellow at Democratic Audit
- Alex Runswick, Deputy Director of Unlock Democracy
- Donald Shell, Author of 'The House of Lords'
- Meg Russell, Deputy Director of the Constitution Unit, University College London
- Graham Allen, MP for Nottingham North and author of 'Reinventing Democracy'
- Stuart Wilks-Heeg, Director of Democratic Audit
- George Young, Leader of the House of Commons
Party political
- Andrew Gamble, Professor of politics at the University of Cambridge
- Tim Bale, Author of 'The Conservative Party from Thatcher to Cameron'
- John Curtice, Professor of Politics at Strathclyde University
- James Mitchell, Professor of Politics at Strathclyde University
- Simon Lee, Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Democratic Governance, University of Hull
- Mark Pack, co-editor of the blog Liberal Democratic Voice
Northern Ireland
- Paul Bew, Lord Bew of Antrim, Professor of Irish History at Queen's University, Belfast
- Martyn Frampton, Author of 'The Long March: the Political Strategy of Sinn Fein, 1981-2007'
- Henry Patterson, Author of 'Ireland since 1939'
- Anthony McIntyre, Author of 'Good Friday: the Death of Irish Republicanism'
Corporate responsibility
- David Grayson, Professor of Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield School of Management
- Stephen Howard, Chief Executive of Business in the Community
- John Varley, Chairman of Business Action on Homelessness
- Sandra Kerr, National Director of Race for Opportunity
Foreign affairs
- Paul Taylor, Emeritus Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics
- Ali Ansari, Professor at University of St Andrews and author of 'Confronting Iran: The Failure of American Foreign Policy and the Roots of Mistrust'
- Alex de Waal, Author of 'Darfur: a New History of a Long War'
- Kirsty Hughes, Head of policy and advocacy, Oxfam UK
EU
- Michael Dougan, Professor of European Law at the University of Liverpool
- Christian Lequesne, Professor at London School of Economics and Sciences Po Paris
- Lord Grenfell, Chairman of the European Union Select Committee
- Julian Priestley, Secretary General of the European parliament from 1997 to 2007
Manufacturing
- Ian Brinkley, Associate director, the Work Foundation
- Derek Marshall, Policy Director, ADS