Mark Littlewood appointed as next Director General of the IEA
Liberal Vision’s Mark Littlewood has been appointed as the IEA’s next Director General. The IEA’s press release is below:
MARK LITTLEWOOD APPOINTED DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE IEA
The Institute of Economic Affairs has appointed Mark Littlewood as its next Director General.
Littlewood, 37, takes on the role from 1st December 2009.
Mark Littlewood said:
“This is an enormously exciting opportunity. But it is also an awesome responsibility. The IEA has made an incredible contribution to the understanding of the importance of free markets over the past five decades. I am determined to ensure that the Institute builds on its rich history to ensure that the case for free markets is made loudly and clearly at this challenging time, when politicians of all parties show an alarming tendency to place trust in increasing regulation and statist solutions to cure many of society’s ills. The need for the IEA has never been greater and I’m honoured to be given the chance to play such a key role in building on the Institute’s reputation, influence and history.”
Mark Littlewood has previously worked as the Head of Media for the Liberal Democrats (2004-2007), the Campaigns Director of human rights group Liberty (2001-2004) and was the co-founder and first chief executive of NO2ID, the campaign against the introduction of identity cards. Since 2007, he has been the Communications Director of the classical liberal think tank, Progressive Vision.
Professor D. R. Myddelton, the Chairman of the IEA Trustees, said:
“We are delighted that Mark Littlewood has agreed to join the IEA as our next Director General. He brings the experience and skills the Institute needs to continue to make the case for free markets clearly and energetically.”
Mark has now resigned from the Liberal Democrats to take on this role. But you can be sure that Liberal Vision will continue to make the case for classical liberalism – loudly and clearly – within the party.
October 26th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
About time the IEA woke up. It will be great to have it back.
October 26th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Congratulations, Mark.
I hope you will be as generous with the IEA’s wine cellar as John Blundell was.
October 26th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
[...] by freethinkingeconomist in Uncategorized. Tagged: IEA, Mark Littlewood. Leave a Comment Mark Littlewood is the new Director of the [...]
October 26th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
Congratulations. If you can better the book on Prohibitions you will be doing a good job Mark.
October 26th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
Congratulations Mark, in the footsteps of Ralph Harris! Not much word of this yesterday…:)
So what happens now with L-V and P-V?
October 26th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
Jock, I cant answer for Mark on PV, but on LV we intend to carry on. We’ve already received several offers of increased help, input on blogs etc from supporters who have otherwise been happy to be more back-stage, which has been truly fantastic (and much appreciated). So its onwards and upwards for us.
October 26th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Congratulations Mark. It’ll be interesting to see you stir the IEA back into life.
October 26th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
Angela, you/we clearly need some kind of a “membership secretary” – I paid around the time of the launch at last year’s autumn conference, never actually heard anything, least of all a reminder to pay again, so I guess I probably owe someone some money too!
October 27th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
Congratulations Mark – will this have any impact on LV – Progressive Vision ? Ed
October 28th, 2009 at 2:14 am
Jock – are you offering to be membership secretary ? if so coool!! LV doesnt actually require any govt certificate to say you are not a danger to society; we dont care if you have one, two or twelve speeding fines and the odd ASBO may be considered a distinct advantage.
If you are not offering I promise to attend to the matter personally – expect a couple of (handsome and rather well-dressed) guys to visit you shortly to relieve you of some cash.
October 28th, 2009 at 2:25 am
Ed , re LV – our ten point plan for power continues – we have dropped point 4 – put point 5 into parenthesis – and have brought forward points 11 through 14. We will need to sign off through high command – but I think we can do that through international conference call on Thursday (though “Mr Green” has asked that his PA handle his end of things). Conference call code word is “stage 3″