Ryan Shorthouse
Ryan is the Founder and Executive Chair of Bright Blue. He was Chief Executive from 2014-2023. Under his leadership, Bright Blue has grown significantly in size, reputation and impact. The organisation was shortlisted for the 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 UK social policy think tank of the year and UK environment and energy think tank of the year in the prestigious annual Prospect Magazine awards.
Ryan was appointed a Commissioner of the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission (CSC) by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). He is also a Senior Visiting Fellow at King’s College London and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Bath. He is also a trustee of the What Works Centre, Transforming Access and Student Outcomes in Higher Education (TASO), and was previously a trustee for the Early Intervention Foundation (2017-2023), Young Women’s Trust (2014-2019) and the Daycare Trust (2010-2015). He sits on the advisory council of the University of Bath Institute for Policy Research, and was previously on the advisory council of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations and Shelter’s Big Conversation on Social Housing. He is a mentor for the Social Mobility Foundation and was governor of a new secondary school in East London from 2017-2023.
Ryan has written the following reports:
- An agenda for action: Reducing racial inequality in modern Britain
- A carbonless crucible? Forging a UK steel industry
- A vision for tax reform in the 2020s
- Greening UK Export Finance
- Home advantage: a new centre-right vision for housing
- Fast track? European climate diplomacy after COP26
- Rightfully rewarded: reforming taxes on work and wealth
- No place like home: The benefits and challenges of home working
- Driving uptake: Maturing the market for electric vehicles
- Delivering net zero: Building Britain’s resilient recovery
- Framing the future: a new pensions commission
- Emission impossible? Air pollution, national governance and the transport sector
- Distant neighbours? Understanding and measuring social integration in England
- Pressure in the pipeline
- Tuition fees for sandwich years, by English university
- Helping Hand? Improving Universal Credit
- Clearing the air: Reducing air pollution in the West Midlands
- Consensus continued? The next stage of pension reform
- Individual identity
- Britain breaking barriers
- The future of London
- Conservatism and human rights
- Going part-time
- Reducing poverty
- The generation game
- How ethnic minorities think about immigration
- A manifesto for immigration
- A future without poverty
- A centre-right plan on immigration
- How Conservative voters think about immigration
- Give and take