APPOINTMENT OF NEW DIRECTOR
Will Somerville has extensive political and think-tank experience. He is currently a Senior Fellow at US think-tank Migration Policy Institute, an organisation focused on influencing governmental policy on immigration.
He is also UK Program Director for an organisation called “Unbound Philanthropy”. The website declares “at Unbound Philanthropy, we seek to contribute to a vibrant, welcoming society and an immigration system rooted in justice, as part of a pluralist and inclusive democracy.” Unbound award grants to organisations in both the US and UK, spending $108 Million since 2005. Groups who have received funding in the UK in 2023 can be found here.
Somerville is a former researcher at the Institute for Public Policy Research (founded by Lord Clive Hollick who donated £10,000 to Labour Together) and was a Policy Analyst in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit under Tony Blair. He has also worked at the Centre For Racial Equality and Cebtre For Economic and Social Inclusion.
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