Alexander Baker is a Research Associate at the Prosperity Institute. He previously worked in Parliament for the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, focussing on foreign policy, national resilience, and security legislation.
He holds degrees from University College London and the University of Oxford.
Radomir was Special Adviser to Rt Hon Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg MP as Minister for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency, then Business Secretary.
Previously at the Legatum Institute and Institute of Economic Affairs he published some of the most influential think-tank publications in the last decade.
Radomir co-authored the book Plan A+: creating a prosperous post-Brexit UK, lauded as the pro-sovereignty Brexiteer alternative to the Chequers White Paper, which planned regulatory alignment with the EU.
The most publicised think-tank release in British history and launched live on two TV channels, the book announced the return of Britain as a free-trade nation: described by the Telegraph as having “moved the centre of gravity in the Conservative Party” and by one cabinet minister as “vital to the course of Brexit history”. Boris Johnson quoted from Plan A+ in his first speech as Prime Minister on Britain’s new course as an independent, free-trading nation. The book was also the subject of an eighteen-month campaign of illegal censorship by a major regulator, which has since apologised and the episode has become a test-case in the modern suppression of free speech.
His other publications include Inadvertently Arming China?: The Chinese military complex and its potential exploitation of scientific research at UK universities. This investigation into the funding of British university research centres by Chinese military-linked organisations demonstrated for the first time their research outputs in military-applicable fields. Making international front-page news, the paper was the subject of a major BBC documentary.
Radomir is a regular public speaker and often published in the Telegraph, Express, Spectator and elsewhere. He has been a speech-writer to a foreign former Prime Minister and is a co-founder of the Free Speech Union and author of numerous other books and papers whose proposals have become conservative policy, including, with Jacob Rees-Mogg, Raising the Roof: how to solve the United Kingdom’s housing crisis, on how the free-market can unleash beautiful housebuilding for everyone.
He has an MPhil from Cambridge University and a double-scholarship quantitative PhD from Imperial College London.
Doug Stokes is a Senior Advisor at the Prosperity Institute and a Professor of International Security and Strategy at the University of Exeter. He is an accomplished academic and security expert. Ranked in the global top five scholars in strategic studies, his academic work has been published in leading journals, including International Affairs, Journal of Strategic Studies, Review of International Political Economy, RUSI Journal, and The Review of International Studies. His books include Global Energy Security and American Hegemony (Johns Hopkins University Press) and US Foreign Policy (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Lord Sumption argues that the arguments developed in his latest book, Against Decolonisation: The Campus Culture Wars and the Decline of the West (2023), “have rarely been made with such verve and force as they are in this succinct demolition of modern decolonisation theory.” Dr Munira Mirza, former head of the No. 10 Policy Unit and CEO of Civic Future, called the book a “highly insightful and persuasive contribution … going far beyond the walls of academia into wider institutions and the international world order.” Decolonisation was nominated for The Times Literary Supplement book of the year 2023.
Professor Stokes has acted as Director of Exeter University’s Strategy and Security Institute, was a Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) for over a decade and is also the Thomas Telford Fellow at the Council on Geostrategy. Professor Stokes regularly writes for major news outlets, including The Times, Telegraph, Spectator and the Daily Mail, and frequently appears on television news programs.
His work has been influential in policy, with citations in Parliamentary Briefings. He actively engages with civil society organisations, sitting on the advisory board of the UK’s Free Speech Union and on the editorial committee of History Reclaimed. Professor Stokes also provides regular advice to ministerial teams on pressing issues. Most recently, he worked with a small team of concerned academics and civil society organisations to help deliver the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023, safeguarding free speech on British campuses.
Kate has over 20 years of experience in the finance industry in both the UK and the Middle East, spanning private investment, sovereign wealth, investment banking, and Big 4 practice, as well as most recently assisting in the launch and rapid expansion of a broadcast media start-up. Kate has returned to the Legatum Group having previously joined in 2009 where she worked with the Legatum Foundation and the Legatum Institute amongst other initiatives.
Kate started her career with PricewaterhouseCoopers in London, working with the insurance sector in business recovery and later, on consulting projects. Having been inspired to pursue a career in the finance sector, she moved into investment banking and later to sovereign wealth and private investment. This took her out to the Middle East, where she spent a decade building her experience and an invaluable insight into international business.
Following a period working for the forensic investigations team at Deloitte in London, Kate took on a new challenge in taking the lead finance role for broadcast media start-up, GB News, taking them from launch through a period of two and a half years of rapid growth and investment.
Kate has a keen interest in politics, history, and international relations.
She is an FCCA chartered accountant and has a BSc (Hons) in Management and Systems Science from the Bayes Business School in London.