Our people are at the core of the Good Growth Foundation, just like people are at the core of good growth.
Our team is made up of experts across policy, public affairs communications and entrepreneurship, working together to find innovative solutions to the UK’s growth problem.
We want to raise living standards across the UK and see growth that makes a meaningful difference in people’s lives. Our team works tirelessly to find answers to seemingly intractable problems, deliver insight into Government and push for policy change, advocating for the public’s priorities each step of the way.
Praful Nargund
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Praful Nargund is the founder and director of the Good Growth Foundation (GGF), a pioneering think tank dedicated to cracking the politics of economic growth. Throughout his career in business and politics, Praful has used innovative solutions which make a practical difference to people’s lives. Under his leadership, GGF is campaigning for popular, practical and fair policies which give people agency, choice and opportunity supported by an enabling state.
Praful is also Skills Adviser to the Work and Pensions Secretary, supporting ministers on delivery of additional youth apprenticeships and tackling the 1 million young NEET crisis. He also advises on AI, building the department’s capacity to respond to employment challenges posed by new technologies.
Exiting in 2023, Praful was previously CEO of Create Fertility, which was on a mission to address inequality in access to fertility treatment. During his leadership, Create Fertility supported thousands of people to start families, pioneering more affordable and less invasive IVF processes.
He is also co-founder of Social Impact Enterprises, supporting ventures that promote sustainable growth. His work has been recognised with innovation and enterprise awards from The Telegraph, The Spectator and London Business School.
Praful regularly appears on national broadcast programmes like Newsnight (BBC), Politics Live (BBC), Politics Hub (Sky News) and Cross Question (LBC), and a frequent columnist for publications including The Times, Politics Home and City AM.
Meet the Team
Louisa Dollimore
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Louisa works at the intersection of politics and policy. She has spent her career working on the gap between good ideas and making things happen - in politics, for Dame Siobhain McDonagh, in the charity sector for women's health, and in social impact enterprise. Louisa joined the Good Growth Foundation at its founding, where she leads strategy across policy, public attitudes, media, and building the organisation.
Jade Azim
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Jade is a public affairs and policy expert with more than a decade in Westminster politics. She is a former aide to Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy MP and has worked on numerous leadership and election campaigns within the Labour movement. She has also worked previously for the IPPR think tank, helping to lead their external affairs. Jade regularly appears as a political commentator in the press and on broadcast, including Sky News and the BBC. She sits on the Board of Trustees for Brightside, the social mobility charity.
Tom Doherty
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Tom is a policy and public affairs expert having worked for more than a decade as a Civil Servant in the Number 10 Policy Unit, HM Treasury and Foreign Office. From these roles, he brings a broad range of policy expertise relating to good growth including on tax, investment, trade and regulatory reform. Tom was also part of the team that negotiated the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation agreement and also previously worked in public affairs agencies.
Max Mosely
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Max is the Lead Economist at the Good Growth Foundation, focusing on the key economic forces that shape people’s living standards, including growth, the labour market, housing, welfare, and the wider macroeconomy. Previously, Max worked as Senior Economist at the New Economics Foundation and the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. He also spent two years working for Stella Creasy MP.
Max serves as a Labour councillor in the London Borough of Hounslow, where he is Cabinet Member for Finance and Resources.
Dylan Turner
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Dylan is an experienced political adviser with a track record in policy, parliament, and campaigning. He served as the Chief of Staff to a Labour MP as well as Policy Manager and Parliamentary Liasion at Progressive Britain. Dylan ran a successful election campaign for the Labour Party in the 2024 general election in Amber Valley, which saw the largest regional voter swing from Conservative to Labour in the East Midlands. Dylan holds a first-class honours degree in History, Politics, and Economics from University College London.
Kai Hain
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Kai is a political and social researcher, and manages polling and focus groups at The Good Growth Foundation. He joined after two years as a research consultant at Opinium, where he conducted research for a range of charities, businesses and public sector bodies, as well as several political campaigns across the UK and beyond. He holds a Masters in European Political Economy from the LSE, and a First Class degree in PPE from the University of York.
Billie Coulson
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Billie joined the Good Growth Foundation having worked across media relations and public affairs at strategic communications firms Pagefield and APCO. She began her career in podcast production for Economist Radio and Luminary, moving into policy and advocacy at Malaria No More UK. She has worked with a range of clients, spanning a wide variety of industries, including the charitable, tech and transportation sectors. Billie has a first class degree in Arabic and the Study of Religions from SOAS.
Ben McGowan
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Ben joined from Labour Party HQ, bringing experience from working on successful political campaigns across the country, such as the 2024 General Election. At Labour, he led the party’s national youth engagement strategy and previously served as Chair of National Labour Students, overseeing the organisation through its re-founding. He is now working on stakeholders, events and partnerships for the Good Growth Foundation.
Ruby Herbert
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Ruby rejoined GGF after 3 months as our 2025 summer intern, having completed her Politics & Parliamentary Studies degree at the University of Leeds. She previously served a two year term as National Chair of Labour Students, leading the organisation through the 2024 General Election, and worked in then-Security Minister Dan Jarvis' Westminster office. She is a graduate of the Jo Cox Women in Leadership programme. Ruby's political interests include regional equality, defence and the cultural & sports sectors.
Our people understand the workings of Westminster, bringing together strategic thinking and bold ideas to deliver for growth that connects with people and strengthens communities.
Advisory Board
Lord Liddle
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Roger Liddle is a Labour member of the House of Lords. From 1997- 2004 he was Europe adviser to Tony Blair. From 2004-8 he worked at a senior level in the European Commission as a member the cabinet and the President’s think tank. From 2008-10 he played a key role supporting the case for an activist modern industrial policy. In the Lords he has served on the Labour front bench and on the European Select Committee. He was coauthor of the 1996 Blair Revolution and has written extensively on Europe and the modernisation of social democracy as former chair of the Policy Network think tank. He now chairs the board of Progressive Britain.
Julia Finch
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Julia Finch spent nearly 25 years at the Guardian, serving as head of business, economics and consumer affairs across The Guardian newspaper, theguardian.com and The Observer for more than a decade. Her team scooped multiple awards and Julia has appeared on TV, radio and on Guardian podcasts, usually as an expert commentator. Prior to joining the Guardian, she worked for the Daily Express as a reporter, editor and head of department. Julia has a BSc (Econ) from the London School of Economics and is also a keen sports fan, especially of cricket and football, and a supporter of women’s sport.
Anthony Breach
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Anthony is Associate Director at Centre for Cities, where he is the lead on housing, planning, devolution, and local finance. He has also led research projects on commercial property in cities, service exports, productivity, advanced manufacturing, and the Treasury Green Book.
Jo Tanner
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Jo Tanner is a recognised media commentator for UK broadcasters and print media on current affairs. As Managing Partner at Rud Pedersen UK, Jo works across public affairs, media relations, and crisis and corporate communications to assist clients navigating media and political challenges. Using her years of experience in Westminster circles, working directly with politicians or connecting nonprofits and FTSE100 clients with government, opposition MPs or political media, Jo now provides senior counsel and creative solutions for clients looking to break through in an increasingly crowded space.
Using her entrepreneurial spirit, Jo co-founded and managed a leading boutique, award-winning consultancy for over sixteen years, where she ran the PR machine for Boris Johnson’s successful Mayoral Campaign, media-trained leading political and business figures. She also developed innovative concepts and campaigns in the public affairs space to support client’s networks and lobbying efforts. In addition, Jo worked on high-profile High Court actions and global crisis communications projects.
Starting out as a broadcast journalist working at Independent Television News, Jo switched to an in-house role as a media officer for the Conservative Party. After years working for Her Majesty’s Official Opposition, she left to work in charity and public sector external affairs and then became communications chief for the British Chamber of Commerce prior to setting up her own firm.
Passionate about education and mental health, Jo helped establish a charity working to prevent teenage suicide and was a member of an academy trust board after many years as a school governor. Taking up football in later life, she also founded the UK Parliamentary Women’s Football Team and was with the team as they set a world record for the biggest ever match in a major event across five days in Lyon, France.
Alongside her consulting and commentary work, Jo dedicates time to causes helping to improve life chances whether supporting women’s representation in politics, the media and industry or advising bodies pursuing economic prosperity.
Mike Craven
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Mike Craven is executive chair of Lexington, a leading media relations and public affairs agency which he founded in 1998. Mike has advised numerous global corporations across all sectors. He is a director of Labour Together and the Future Resilience Forum. Mike also serves as a governor of a west London comprehensive school and is chair of the board of the Catholic weekly, The Tablet.
Hugh Goulbourne
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Hugh is a commercial lawyer and a leader in clean energy finance and climate policy. With over 15 years of experience advancing the UK’s renewable energy transition, Hugh has held key roles in environmental charities and advised the New Labour government on community energy and grid decarbonisation.
Based in the North of England, Hugh is passionate about the need to provide opportunities for people across the UK to start and scale businesses in the industries of the future. He helped to kick off the development of the health innovation campus in Huddersfield and is leading a programme of work with Progressive Britain to help develop regional models for economic growth.
Outside of work Hugh is a sports coach and enthusiast and a Labour Party activist, ensuring due process within the Labour Party as an elected member of its National Constitutional Committee.
Claire Ainsley
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Claire Ainsley is Director of the Center-Left Renewal Project at the Progressive Policy Institute. From 2020-22 she was Executive Director of Policy to Keir Starmer, Leader of the Opposition and the UK Labour Party. Prior to this, she was Executive Director of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Leading JRF’s strategy to inspire action and change to solve UK poverty. In May 2018 she authored “The New Working Class: How to Win Hearts, Minds and Votes”.
Andrew Clark
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A former journalist, Andrew spent nearly two decades as a financial reporter, editor and City commentator, holding roles including Business Editor of the Observer, Deputy Business Editor at The Times and US Business Correspondent at the Guardian. Since moving into the corporate world, he has been Head of Communications for a major industrial conglomerate and Corporate Affairs Director at The Go-Ahead Group, a leading bus and rail operator. He now works for a communications consultancy.
Between 2018 and 2021, he was Chief Operating Officer of Labour in the City. He is now Chair of Islington South Labour Party.
