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Polly Curtis

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Chief Executive at Demos
📍 London, England, United Kingdom

Polly Curtis is the Chief Executive of the cross-party think tank Demos. Her extensive career in journalism includes senior editorial roles at The Guardian, HuffPost UK, and Tortoise Media. She holds an MA in journalism and completed a leadership programme at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

Outside of her primary role, Pollys work is consistently driven by themes of social equity and fairness. She is an author focused on social justice and has served as a trustee for the Public Interest News Foundation. Polly lives in Camden, London, with her husband and two children.

Her first book, "Behind Closed Doors, " an investigation into the UKs child protection system, was a finalist for the prestigious Orwell Prize for Political Writing in 2022.

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Experience
7 Years
Current Role
Chief Executive
Job Level
Junior
Location
London, England, United Kingdom
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Strengthening Democracy
As CEO of Demos, her core mission is to upgrade democracy and repair the broken relationship between the state and its citizens, a frequent topic in her public posts.
Child Protection Reform
Authored "Behind Closed Doors, " an Orwell Prize-finalist book investigating the crisis in England's social services and child protection system, advocating for systemic change.
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Career

Work history

5-2022
Chief Executive
Demos
5-2022
Senior Non Executive Director
Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
3-2022
Trustee
Public Interest News Foundation
10-2018 - 6-2023
Editor/Partner
Tortoise Media
2-2022 - 2-2022
Author
Behind Closed Doors: why we break up families - and how to mend them
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Education
2000 - 2001
MA journalism
Goldsmiths, University of London
Oxford High Performance Leadership Programme
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
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