Matthew Taylor

Matthew Taylor is Chief Executive of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) in London. Prior to this appointment in November 2006, he was the chief adviser on political strategy to the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, having served the Labour Party since 1994. Matthew was the director of the Institute for Public Policy Research, Britain's leading centre left think tank, between 1999 and 2003, during which time the Institute became the largest independent public policy think tank in Europe.