Biography

Daniel is Executive Director of the Huth Initiative for a New Political Economy, a major multi-disciplinary initiative to develop a new economic paradigm that serves the common interest. He is author of the book FREE AND EQUAL (Penguin, 2023), which makes the case for a new progressive liberalism grounded in the ideas of the philosopher John Rawls, and was a Waterstones, Financial Times and New Statesman Book of the Year. He has degrees in economics, philosophy and history from Cambridge and the LSE, and was awarded a Henry Fellowship at Harvard where he studied under Amartya Sen. Prior to joining LSE, he worked as a policy advisor in the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit and Deputy Prime Minister's Office, and as a researcher at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Resolution Foundation.

Current areas of research include:

• Community, belonging, and liberal democracy
• Economic justice and welfare economics, especially the work John Rawls
• Inequality, particularly the impact of technology on the distribution of earnings and the organisation of work
• Good jobs, productivism and workplace democracy