About IPPR
Lisa Harker
Lisa Harker
Co-Director
(0)207 470 6102
directors@ippr.org
Previous work
Lisa’s career has spanned campaigning, journalism and policy-making. She spent two years at the BBC as a Social Affairs Specialist advising journalists across the Corporation, including a stint as a producer on the Today programme. As Chair, Lisa was instrumental in transforming Daycare Trust into one of the most influential childcare organisations. In 2006 Lisa was appointed as the Government’s child poverty tsar at the Department for Work and Pensions where she wrote Delivering Child Poverty: What would it take? She also worked as an independent advisor to the Treasury and the Department for Children, Schools and Families. A former Deputy Director of ippr, Lisa returned to the organisation in 2007 to jobshare the role of Director with Carey Oppenheim.
Latest Reports:
Regeneration Through Co-operation
Creating a framework for communities to act together >
Global Brit
Making the most of the British diaspora >
Growing the Big Society
Encouraging social and community enterprise >
Green and decent jobs
'Easy' approach to public service delivery
Development on the Move
ippr podcasts >
RSS feeds >