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Barry Knight is a social scientist who has worked for the UK Government as Adviser on policy and grants for non-profit organisations. His early career was spent in research and teaching at Cambridge University and he later worked for the European Commission. He has written books on economic development, family policy, inner cities, the voluntary sector, and social enterprise.

British sociologist who developed the structuring theory which approaches to overcoming the analytical division between social structure and agency. Also, is a leading public intellectual in Britain, director of the London School of Economics and co-founder of the Economic Culture Fund.

David T. Ellwood is an American economist and university administrator. He served as the Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government and as the Scott M. Black Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University.

Social Anthropology, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Is a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution, where she formerly held the position of vice president and director of Economic Studies, among other duties.

 Is a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is also director of the Future of the Middle Class Initiative at Brookings. His research focuses on the middle class, inequality and social mobility.

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