Career
Reeves is Company-Director of the Center on Children and Families at Brookings, working principally on issues related to intergenerational mobility, inequality and social change. Until 2012 Reeves was Director of Strategy to Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg. Previously he had been director of the London-based think tank Demos.
Reeves has held positions including Director of Futures at The Work Foundation, a British non-profit organisation, Society Editor of The Observer, Economics Correspondent and Washington Correspondent of The Guardian, and policy adviser to Frank Field when he was Minister for Welfare Reform.
Reeves has published two books, John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand (2007), a biography of the British liberal philosopher and politician, and Happy Mondays (2002) about job satisfaction. He also co-authored The 80 Minute Master of Business Administration (2009) with John Knell, a condensed business management book
He is also a former European Business Speaker of the Year. Reeves appears regularly on radio and television as a political commentator, and writes for a variety of publications including the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian and The Observer.
He is also a regular contributor to the online "Think Tank" section of the Wall Street Journal.
In 2005, he co-presented the four-part BBC2 series, Making Slough Happy. He writes regularly in British newspapers and magazines on politics, well-being, work and character. In summer 2010 Reeves left Demos, joining the office of Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, a Liberal Democrat, as a Special Advisor.
Anybody who wants a centre-left party will find a perfectly acceptable one in Labour.