Baroness Philippa Stroud to speak at CCF Wilberforce Address 2016
The Future of Social Justice?
The Wilberforce Address is a CCF event known throughout Westminster for attracting high-profile speakers from Westminster. Speakers for previous addresses include William Hague, Iain Duncan Smith, Michael Gove and former Prime Minister, David Cameron. Last year we heard from Stephen Crabb MP who spoke on Faith and Freedom in Britain today, and how we protect these at the time when we are also confronting the challenges of intolerance and extremism.
About Phillippa Stroud - Chief Executive of the Legatum Institute
Philippa’s life and career to date have been strongly influenced by her passion to tackle poverty and social breakdown. Philippa’s early career was in the voluntary sector including spending time in Hong Kong and Macau working with heroin addicts and ex-members of triad gangs who were undergoing rehabilitation. On her return to the UK she founded and directed a 4 stage project that supported people off the streets and into independent living before moving to Birmingham in 2000 where she became Executive Director of the Bridge Project, a voluntary sector project that provided supported accommodation for homeless men and women.
In 2004 she moved to London and was a founder member and then Executive Director of the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), a think tank chaired by the Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith set up to address the drivers of social breakdown in Britain. In 2006 she took on the role as Director of the Social Justice Policy Group – commissioned by David Cameron and Chaired by Iain Duncan Smith to develop Conservative Party social policy. This was the foundational work that developed the “Five Pathways to Poverty” and 190 policy proposals for the reversal of social breakdown.
In 2010 Philippa became Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, and in 2012 additionally to the Prime Minister. She was responsible for the development of the Social Justice agenda, working on the Government’s key Welfare Reform programme, the introduction of Universal Credit, the creation of Social Investment and the new child poverty measures.
Following the 2015 General Election, Philippa was ennobled and returned to run the CSJ as its Chief Executive. Philippa was recently appointed as Chief Executive of the Legatum Institute, a Londonbased think tank dedicated to helping nations, societies, and individuals move from poverty to prosperity. Philippa takes up this role from November 2016.
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