Mark Kleinman is a Visiting Professor at the Policy Institute. He has been a government adviser at the No. 10 Strategy Unit, a senior civil servant, and a policy director for three London Mayors. His interests include the economy and business, migration, urban governance, regulation, digital innovation and technology, and UK-EU relations.

He has held academic posts at the University of Cambridge and the London School of Economics, as well as a chair in international social policy at the University of Bristol. In 2015 he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Toronto.

He is author or co-author of four books, including A European Welfare State? (Palgrave), Working Capital: Life and Labour in Contemporary London (Routledge) and more than 100 published papers. He has spoken at conferences in the UK, Europe, the US, Canada, China and Japan, and has been a consultant to the OECD and the European Commission, as well as major UK and global companies.