During this time the society has substantially increased its output of research and innovation, has provided new routes to support charitable initiatives of its 28,000 fellows – including crowd funding - and has developed a global profile as a platform for ideas. In October 2016 Matthew was appointed by the prime minister to lead an independent review into modern employment; the review’s findings were published in July 2017.
Prior to this appointment, Taylor was chief adviser on political strategy to the prime minister. Previous roles include Labour Party director of policy and deputy general secretary and chief executive of the ippr, the UK’s leading left of centre think tank.
Taylor is a regular media expert panellist, having appeared several times on the Today Programme, The Daily Politics and Newsnight. He had written and presented several Radio Four documentaries and is a panellist on the programme Moral Maze. He writes a regular column for the Local Government Chronicle. He has posted over a thousand times on his RSA blog site and tweets as #RSAMatthew.
