DANIEL CHANDLER

Dr Daniel Chandler is an economist and philosopher based at the London School of Economics, where he is Executive Director of the recently announced Huth Initiative for a New Political Economy, Reserarch Director of the Programme on Cohesive Capitalism, and Assistant Professorial Research Fellow in the School of Public Policy.

He is the author of FREE AND EQUAL [UK; US], described by Zadie Smith as 'A robust and inspiring case for the philosophy of John Rawls' and by Thomas Piketty as 'a fantastic book... [that] provides us with the moral basis for an ambitious egalitarian agenda, and a roadmap for putting this into practice'.

Daniel obtained his PhD in Economics at the LSE. He has a starred first in History from Cambridge University, and was awarded a Henry Fellowship at Harvard where he studied under Amartya Sen. Prior to joining LSE, he worked in the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit and Deputy Prime Minister's Office, and as a researcher at think tanks including the Resolution Foundation and Institute for Fiscal Studies.