Will Hutton is Chair of the Big Innovation Centre. He was previously editor-in-chief of the Observer, and is the author of many books, including the bestselling The State We're In.
His optimism is unquenchable, his excitement exhilarating and his creativity awesome * Observer * If Will Hutton were a political party I would vote for him -- David Aaronovitch * Independent * Passionately sane, rich in ideas, The State We're In breathes human sense back into economics and eloquently embodies the spirit of a new optimism * Ian McEwan * Hutton acknowledges two great influences: J.M. Keynes and J.K. Galbraith... Hutton's bestseller will do for their theories what Stephen Hawking did for cosmology in A Brief History of Time -- Martin Vander Weyer * Daily Telegraph * Now, in Will Hutton's book, we have at last what we need - an impassioned, and passionately cogent, critique of New Right policy -- John Gray * Guardian *