Ben Southwood, Senior Fellow

Ben Southwood is a founding editor of Works in Progress. He has been head of research at Create Streets, and head of housing at Policy Exchange, been part of three successful Emergent Ventures grants, and worked as a public sector consultant for KPMG.

Most importantly, he edited the ASI's research for almost five years, producing dozens of impactful reports Beyond the Call of Duty: Why we should abolish Stamp Duty Land Tax and Patently Good: A Defence of Intellectual Property and writing several of his own, including the award-winning research paper Is the rate of scientific progress slowing down? co-authored with Dr Tyler Cowen.

He lives in South London and is a fan of natural wine, sour beer, ambient music and cricket.

He tweets at @bswud.