Vivienne Russell

Serve and protect: An interview with Trade Remedies Authority chair Nick Baird
20 Feb
Serve and protect: An interview with Trade Remedies Authority chair Nick Baird
Cheaper imports for consumers or protection for domestic industries? Baird explains how he is guiding the new organisation through a dynamic but delicate policy area
Preventative policy is a good idea, but politically tricky. What's needed to make it work?
05 Jun 2024 Policy
Preventative policy is a good idea, but politically tricky. What's needed to make it work?
Prevention is an attractive and perennial theme in public policy, but good intentions rarely translate into successful action. In the run-up to the election, a new consensus around prevention is emerging. Could it be different this time?
'We don’t have to do things the same way other organisations have done them': Building the UK Infrastructure Bank
29 Feb 2024 Finance
'We don’t have to do things the same way other organisations have done them': Building the UK Infrastructure Bank
The Treasury-backed UKIB, launched in 2021, aims to advance both net-zero and levelling up ambitions. Here, some of its leaders talk about the challenge of doing something new and blending the best of the public and private sectors