Team members

Eleanor Shearer

Senior Research Fellow

Leela Jadhav

Researcher

Chris Hayes

Chief Economist

Sophie Flinders

Senior Data Analyst

Mathew Lawrence

Director
2025-06-14
14.06.2025

Corporate Accountability After Grenfell

How could new legal frameworks more effectively hold companies responsible for negligence?
2024-09-22
22.09.2024

Shareholder Primacy and Business Investment

A more participatory and purpose-led form of corporate governance is the key to improving the UK’s low levels of business investment and poor productivity.
2024-05-16
16.05.2024

A Firm Partnership

This briefing note introduces Common Wealth’s upcoming programme of corporate governance reform, launching this summer with a mix of research, policy development and advocacy.
2024-05-15
15.05.2024

Dynamics of Corporate Governance Beyond Ownership in AI

Big Tech dominates investment in AI technology; a public strategy for regulation is crucial to challenge uneven distributions of economic power.
2020-07-07
07.07.2020

The Green Recovery Act

Nine steps to secure a green and fair recovery.
2023-03-24
24.03.2023

Stagnant and Unequal: How the UK is an Outlier in Corporate Governance and Why That Matters

2020-12-09
09.12.2020

Timeline: Anti-monopoly Action in the United States

2020-12-02
02.12.2020

Big Tech's Monopoly Power

2019-11-13
13.11.2019

Examining the Inclusive Ownership Fund

2022-05-02
02.05.2022

The Great Divide: Examining Labour Compensation and Dividend Growth

2022-10-27
27.10.2022

Buy Back Better: The Case for Raising Taxes on Dividends and Buybacks

2022-10-11
11.10.2022

The Big Buyback

This briefing is published in collaboration with IPPR as part of our programme of work exploring profits and corporate power post-pandemic.
2019-05-29
29.05.2019

Ownership Funds in the US

2020-07-26
26.07.2020

Interview: Michelle Meagher on Competition and the Firm

Anti-trust lawyer Michelle Meagher explains the problem with how we regulate monopolies.
2020-10-29
29.10.2020

Interview: Isabelle Ferreras on Workplace Democracy and the Firm as a Political Entity

“Work is, par excellence, the most political experience that people get.”
2019-06-12
12.06.2019

Democratic Ownership Funds: Creating Shared Wealth and Power

Recent decades have seen a rapid and little-discussed transformation in corporate ownership structure, with vital consequences for company behaviour and inequality.
2020-04-17
17.04.2020

Commoning the Company

Rewriting company rules and building public wealth for a fairer, stronger post-crisis economy.
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