Julian Le Grand is the Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics. In February 2011, he was appointed Chair of the Government’s Mutuals Taskforce.

From 2003 to 2005 he was seconded to No 10 Downing St as senior health policy adviser to the Prime Minister, Tony Blair. He has also acted as an adviser to the World Bank, the World Health Organisation, the European Commission, the OECD, HM Treasury and the UK Department of Health. He has been vice-chair of a major teaching hospital, a commissioner on the Commission for Health Improvement, and has served on many other health service boards. He chaired the Working Group on Social Work Practices for the Department for Education and Health England for the Department of Health. He is the author, co-author or editor of more than nineteen books and over ninety articles and book chapters on economics, philosophy and public policy.