Tom Bentley
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tom Bentley is an author and policy analyst based in Australia but originally born and educated in the United Kingdom.
He is currently Executive Director for policy and cabinet for the Premier of Victoria, Australia and a visiting professor at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government.
Between 1998 and 2006 he was director of DEMOS - described by The Economist as ‘Britain's most influential think tank'.
Prior to his role at Demos he was a special adviser to David Blunkett MP, then Secretary of State for Education and Employment, where he worked on issues including school curriculum reform, social inclusion, creativity, citizenship, adult skills and area-based regeneration.
He has been a Trustee and Chair of the Learning Programme for the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA), United Kingdom and a Trustee of the Community Action Network in London.
His publications include:
- Learning beyond the classroom: education for a changing world, (Routledge, 1998)
- The Creative Age: knowledge and skills for a new economy (Demos, 1999),
- The Adaptive State: strategies for personalising the public realm (Demos 2003),
- Letting go: complexity, individualism and the left (Renewal, 2002),
- Everyday Democracy: why we get the politicians we deserve (Demos, 2005)
He has been a regular contributor to the Guardian, the Financial Times and The New Statesman as well as regularly being interviewed for print and broadcast media.
He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Oxford.
