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TOM GASH
TOM GASH is an adviser, researcher, and writer who helps people to think differently about the big challenges facing governments and societies worldwide. He is a senior fellow at the Institute for Government, an honorary senior lecturer at University College London’s Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science, and an expert adviser with the Boston Consulting Group, where he started his career. Tom’s work focuses on two areas. First, crime policy, a topic he advised on in the UK Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit in the mid-2000s and the focus of work with senior leaders in a range of geographies since then. Second, government effectiveness, the focus of much of his consulting work and of his research at the Institute for Government, which he joined as part of its set-up in 2008. Tom was the Institute’s director of research until August 2015 and led a range of high-profile studies examining how to improve public services. His first book, CRIMINAL: The Truth About Why People Do Bad Things (Penguin 2016) was shortlisted as a Sunday Times 2016 “Thought” Book of the Year and was described by the Times as “as enlightening about crime in modern society as any book that I have read.” Tom spends the majority of his time working with ministers, senior officials, and practitioners in governments internationally — and with charities and private companies who work with or are heavily affected by government policy. His work usually focuses on either crime and justice policy or government’s use of private and voluntary sector companies. Tom believes an informed public leads to better government and a happier society.
Author of CRIMINAL: The Truth About Why People Do Bad Things
He lives in London with his wife, Eliza, a health and fitness guru who runs Healthy Living London, and his son, Arthur, who is a professional sleep-stealing bundle of loveliness. For more information about Tom Gash, visit tomgash.com.
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