People
People
Dan Corry
with maternal family from Brick Lane, and having followed his East End father into economics, Dan put down some of his roots in Whitehall and Westminster; most recently in Downing Street where he worked for the Prime Minister as Head of the No 10 Policy Unit and then as his Senior Advisor on the economy. He has been Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, a Special Adviser, including to the Secretary of State at the Department of Education and Skills, and Director of the New Local Government Network. Dan is now a Director of FTI Consulting, supports Chelsea and plays football.
Rhian Harris
lives and works in East London, where she is surrounded by toys and is Director of the V&A Museum of Childhood. As founding Director of the Foundling Museum, Rhian made a truly marvellous museum which combines an historic site with exploring the connections between place, social history and the search for belonging that are central to the stories of 19 Princelet Street.
Jim Rollo CMG
migrated many years ago from Scotland to pursue a career in economic policy, which included working in the Overseas Development Administration, as Chief Economic Adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and as a Director at Chatham House. He is presently Director of the Sussex European Institute and of the Centre on European Political Economy at the University of Sussex, Professor of Economics at the College of Europe at Natolin, Warsaw, and a founding Director of TradeSIFT. Jim is committed to showing the world the diversity that is modern Britain.
Santosh Stride
Spitalfields born and bred, with one parent born just a few doors along Princelet Street and a grandfather who was Rector of Christchurch round the corner, Santosh became a museum maker, at 19 Princelet Street, in 2000. More recently she has taught in Nepal, works part-time with children with special needs, is a kayak instructor and a student of sports science.
Susie Symes
has been sherpa, scribe and spare pair of hands for other charities; she chairs 19 Princelet Street and its museum-making team. Susie’s routes led from the edge of Asia via Manchester to being chosen by the BBC as a ‘Listed Londoner’ and by London’s Mayor as a ‘Londoner who made life better for others’. Previously an academic, Treasury official, Eurocrat and a Director at Chatham House, she is now an economist and campaigner.