About Us.
We have assembled a group of people spanning government, business, technology, military and beyond. They all share the same view: the system needs radical reform but we don’t have the right people to do it.
Board.
Lord Agnew
Lord Agnew is a businessman who was made a Peer in 2017. He entered government that year serving as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the School System from 2017-2020. He then became Minister of State for Efficiency and Transformation jointly at the Cabinet Office and HM Treasury serving from 2020-2022. He has also served as a Non-Executive Director of the Department for Education, the Cabinet Office and the Ministry of Justice.
Malcolm Offord
Malcolm Offord is a Scottish businessman and politician. Following a 25-year investment career in The City of London, Offord returned to Scotland in 2014 and founded Badenoch & Co, a private-equity boutique focused on investing in SMEs which manufacture in Scotland and sell abroad. In 2021, Offord was appointed a Conservative Life Peer and served as a Government minister in the Scotland Office and in the Department for Business and Trade. In December 2025, he resigned from the House of Lords and joined Reform UK. Shortly thereafter, he was appointed Leader of Reform UK in Scotland and in May 2026 he was elected as a Member of the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood.
Lord Nash
Lord Nash is a businessman and venture capitalist who was made a Peer in 2013. He served as a Non-Executive Director at the Department for Education before becoming a Minister. He also later served as lead Non-Executive Director across government and Non-Executive Director of the Cabinet Office between 2020 and 2022.
Ameer Kotecha
Ameer Kotecha was formerly a senior British diplomat, with over a decade’s experience in government. He began his career in the private sector as a financial analyst before joining the Diplomatic Service in 2015. As a diplomat he has worked in roles in London and abroad, including in New York and Hong Kong. From 2023-25, he was head of the British consulate in Russia. From 2025-26, until his resignation, he was a senior diplomat based in British Embassy Tel Aviv, serving as Head of Palestinian Issues.
Staff.
Ivan Wise
Ivan was previously Head of Business Development at Rabi, overseeing a new critical care app to mitigate farming emergencies. Before that, he was Director of Admissions at Winchester College. He was a founder director at Think Ahead, where he recruited 800 trainees to join their leadership programme. He edits The Shavian, the journal of the Shaw Society, is chair of trustees at arts charity Ark T and hosts the Better Known podcast. He read PPE at Oxford University.
Andrew Mackersie
Andrew Mackersie’s previous career was in Westminster and Whitehall. As a senior civil servant in the Cabinet Office, he was the “usual channels” (the interface between government and opposition front benches, responsible for the parliamentary programme) during the Cameron-Clegg coalition and led a set of ministerial private offices. As a clerk in the House of Lords, he led teams supporting select committees on questions of public policy and worked for the law lords when the final court of appeal was based there. He has also worked with the households. In the now distant past, he read history at Oxford.
Jamie Quantick
Jamie is a graduate from the University of Bath, where he wrote his dissertation on AI implementation in Whitehall. During his time at university he built the UK’s largest student politics platform, whilst playing as much cricket as possible.
Thomas Miller
Thomas is researching AI and government reform. He’s a barrister in training and is interested in implementing AI into the Civil Service and creating the legal structures for AI regulation. Previous to the CGR he wrote a novel and worked in the automotive industry.
Ollie Norton
Ollie was attracted to CGR because of its focus on how to actually deliver change. He found there to be an abundance of think tanks doing valuable, policy focused work, but nowhere engaging with how policies might be actualised. Previously Ollie read Theology, Religion and Philosophy of Religion at Cambridge, followed by an MSc in Philosophy and Public Policy at the LSE.
Chloe Sinker
Chloe previously worked for an MP for four years. Whilst she relished her role, she became increasingly disillusioned by the workings of Westminster and Whitehall from an organisational and efficiency point of view. She sees CGR as enabling her to play a part in implementing solutions to fix the state.
Advisory Council.
The Centre will be supported by an advisory council of senior figures with direct experience of government and business at the highest levels. The first members of the advisory council will be announced in the coming weeks.
