Dan Corry | |
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| Director of Number 10 Policy Unit | |
| In office 2007–2008 | |
| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | David Bennett |
| Succeeded by | Nick Pearce |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Dan Corry |
| Occupation | Economist |
Dan Corry was the head of theNumber 10 Policy Unit forBritish prime ministerGordon Brown. After leaving Number 10, he became director of the economics division ofFTI Consulting, then in 2011 head of the think tankNew Philanthropy Capital.[1][2]
Dan's maternal family came fromBrick Lane in theeast end of London,[3] and he followed his father Bernard Corry into economics. In addition to working at senior levels of government, Corry was senior economist at theInstitute for Public Policy Research in the 1990s and ran theNew Local Government Network think tank from 2002 until 2005.[2]
Corry began his career in the civil service as a labour market economist at theDepartment of Employment, then worked atHM Treasury from 1986 to 1989. He was aspecial adviser at theDepartment of Trade and Industry from 1997 to 2001. Then he was at theDepartment of Transport, Local Government and the Regions from 2001 to 2002, special adviser in theDepartment for Education and Skills (United Kingdom) from 2005 to 2006 and theDepartment of Communities and Local Government in 2006.[4]
Corry was Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers inHM Treasury from 2006 to 2007, then Director of theNumber 10 Policy Unit from 2007 to 2008. He was Senior Adviser on the Economy to the Prime MinisterGordon Brown from 2007 to 2010.[4]
During his time as aspecial adviser in the nineties he found himself at the heart of allegations that the government tried to smear survivors of theLadbroke Grove rail crash.[5][6]
Dan is aVisiting Fellow atSouthampton University and atrustee of the Spitalfields Centre Charity Trust. Other posts have included membership of theGreater Manchester Economic Advisory Panel, the Research Committee of theEconomic and Social Research Council and the Advisory Board ofCentreForum.[7]
| Government offices | ||
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| Preceded by | Number 10 Policy Unit 2007–2008 | Succeeded by Nick Pearce |
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