A left-leaning think-tank focused on social justice and the environment. Formally independent but traditionally close to New Labour.

Address: 30-32 Southampton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7RA
Telephone: 020 7470 6100
Email: info@ippr.org
Website: http://www.ippr.org

Co-Director: Lisa Harker
Co-Director: Carey Oppenheim
Acting Deputy Director and Head of Social Policy: Kate Stanley
Deputy Chair of ippr’s Security Commission: Ian Kearns
Research Director, ippr north: Olga Mrinska

Since its creation the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has dedicated itself to research on the issues around social justice, the environment and democratic reform. Though independent of the Labour Party, it has often made key contributions to policy development and former staff members include David Miliband and Patricia Hewitt. Its Commission on Social Justice in 1992 proved particularly influential in the further modernisation of the Labour Party under John Smith.

Its current research projects include an all-party Commission on National Security, co-chaired by Lord Robertson and Lord Ashdown, a project on ‘Tomorrow’s Capitalism’, involving Vince Cable, Will Hutton and John McFall, and a Global Climate Network aimed at bridging the gap between the west and the developing world on climate change.

The foundation of the IPPR in 1988 was based on a plan developed by Labour peer Lord Hollick and he established the organisation alongside Lord Eatwell. Its creation came at a crucial moment for the centre-left in the aftermath of Labour’s third successive electoral defeat.

The IPPR has distinguished itself as the only think-tank with offices in both London and the North and it retains a permanent staff in Newcastle. The sub-body IPPR North has conducted research on global food security and the economic structure of the European Union and has recently launched an inquiry into public service inequalities in the region.

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