NESTA appoints new policy and research fellow

09/07/2009

"Phillip joins us at an exciting and challenging time. There has never been a more urgent need for us to deliver radical ideas that meet the twin challenges of delivering better, more tailored public services for less money."

NESTA, the National Endowment for Science, Technology & the Arts, has appointed Phillip Blond as a NESTA Fellow.

Phillip will work with NESTA on a variety of cutting edge research projects including how the UK can develop more innovative public services by empowering front-line professionals and their client communities and how a fresh focus on creating a new economic infra-structure for local economies will place local communities at the front of innovation and economic growth. The work will help shape and inform NESTA's public services innovation Lab which launched in April 2009. 

Jonathan Kestenbaum, CEO of NESTA, said: "Phillip joins us at an exciting and challenging time. There has never been a more urgent need for us to deliver radical ideas that meet the twin challenges of delivering better, more tailored public services for less money. He is renowned as someone with genuinely new ideas which makes this a perfect fit for NESTA. His appointment signals a deepening of our commitment to imaginative research that will influence public policy today and in the future."

Phillip has a strong interest in the benefits of empowering communities to take control of both how their community functions and the growth of their local economy and is currently working on two new books, Red Tory and The Eyes of Faith.

For further information please call: Rachel Grant, NESTA Communications Director on 0207 438 2600 or email Rachel.grant@nesta.org.uk

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NESTA is the largest independent endowment in the UK and its mission is to support innovation to drive economic recovery and solve some of the UK's major social challenges.

NESTA is a world leader in its field and is in a unique position to support and promote innovation through a blend of practical programmes, policy and research, and investment in early-stage companies.