Our People

Our People

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  • Ed Keyser

    Ed Keyser

    Ed joined Advocate as a researcher in early 2014. He has a strong academic background in politics, having graduated with a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University...

  • Kay Boycott

    Kay Boycott

    Kay Boycott joined Asthma UK, the UK’s leading asthma charity, as Chief Executive in October 2013. Kay began her career in commercial roles with Nestlé Rowntree and Johnson & Johnson,...

  • Hakim Yadi

    Hakim Yadi

    Hakim joined the NHSA on the 1st October 2013 from PA Consulting Group where he focused on the integration of academia, clinical and business functions in the translational medicine field....

  • James Wildblood

    James Wildblood

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  • Matt Bland

    Policy Manager, The Association of British Credit Unions Limited (ABCUL)

    Matt Bland

    Matt has been with ABCUL since January 2009.  Matt leads on representing the interests of the credit union movement to UK Government, regulators and policy-makers generally.  Matt’s time at ABCUL...

  • Christine Allison

    Christine Allison

    Christine Allison is a CSFI Financial Inclusion Fellow and member of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Task Group on Responsible Credit and Savings. She previously spent more than twenty years with...

  • Callum Anderson

    Callum Anderson

    Callum Anderson joined the CDFA as a Research Assistant in January 2014 following stints at the think tanks Demos and Reform. He graduated with a BSc in Economics with German...

  • David Barclay

    David Barclay is a Community Organiser on the Just Money campaign with Citizens UK. He was President of the Oxford University Student Union having studied Modern History there....

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  • Chi Onwurah

    Chi Onwurah has been MP for Newcastle Central since 2010 and is currently a Shadow Cabinet Office Minister leading on cyber security, social entrepreneurship, civil contingency, open government and transparency....

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  • Lui Smyth

    Lui is the UK General Manager of CoinJar, a global personal finance company, where people can easily buy and spend bitcoin and other currencies. Lui gets very excited about...

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