Will Hutton
Will Hutton is Principal of Hertford College Oxford, co-founder of the Big Innovation Centre and non-executive director of the Satellite Applications Catapult. He has chaired two commissions for the UK government, on Fair Pay for the Coalition and the Creative Industries for the Blair government, and was rapporteur of the Kok Commission's inquiry into shaping the EU’s knowledge economy in 2005. He chaired an independent commission on university fees between 2012 and 2015. He has written a number of best-selling books on political economy and business, notably the ‘State We’re In’, ‘the World We’re In’, ‘the Writing on the Wall’ (on China), ‘Them and Us’ and more recently, with Andrew Adonis, Saving Britain. Will was formerly the editor-in- chief of the Observer and economics correspondent for Newsnight from 1983 to 1988. Currently Will writes a regular column for the Observer and is a well–known British commentator and public intellectual.