Senior Associate Fellow 

Ben Caldecott

Ben Caldecott is a Senior Associate Fellow at Bright Blue and has established its work on energy and environment. He is the founding Director of the Oxford Sustainable Finance Programme at the University of Oxford Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. He is also an Academic Visitor at the Bank of England, a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, and a Senior Advisor at Highmore LLC. Ben specialises in environment, energy, and sustainability issues and works at the intersection between finance, government, civil society, and academe, having held senior roles in each domain.

Ben has authored and edited a substantial number of publications related to the environment and is an experienced media commentator and public speaker. He is also a regular peer reviewer and serves on a number of boards and advisory panels, including the UK Green Finance Taskforce, City of London Green Finance Initiative, University of Oxford Socially Responsible Investment Review Committee, The Prince of Wales’s Accounting for Sustainability Project, and the Green Alliance.

Associate Fellows  

Kate Maltby

Kate Maltby is an Associate Fellow at Bright Blue and former Editor of the Bright Blue's magazine. She has previously worked for Standpoint magazine, and was for two years the theatre critic for The Spectator's Arts Blog. Her contributions have appeared in, amongst others, The Spectator, Standpoint, The Financial Times, The Times, The Times Literary Supplement and The Huffington Post. After studying at Oxford and Yale, she is now at University College London, researching a PhD on the literary life of Queen Elizabeth I. She has particular policy interests in education and universities, Tory engagement with feminism, America, Germany and the arts. 

Kieron O'Hara

Kieron O'Hara is an associate professor and principal research fellow in electronics and computer science at the University of Southampton, researching into the social and political impact of technology, particularly the World Wide Web. His interests are focused on privacy, trust and transparency, especially in the context of 'big data'. He is the author of several books in this area, including 'The Spy in the Coffee Machine: The End of Privacy As We Know It' (with Sir Nigel Shadbolt), and 'The Devil's Long Tail: Religious and Other Radicals in the Internet Marketplace' (with David Stevens). He also researches into the theory and practice of conservatism, on which he has written books including 'After Blair: Conservatism Beyond Thatcher', and 'Conservatism', as well as books on the Enlightenment, Aldous Huxley and Joseph Conrad.

Kieron is a lead in the UKAN network of anonymisation professionals, developing best practice on how organisations can share data without compromising privacy. His report for the Cabinet Office on privacy and open data was published in September 2011, and from 2010-15 he chaired the transparency sector panel on crime and criminal justice data for the Ministry of Justice and the Home Office.