Hugh has been a member of the Green Party since 2012 and stood as candidate for Marylebone High Street Ward in a by-election in 2013 and again in the 2014 local elections.
Hugh says:
“It’s a privilege to represent the Green Party in the Cities of London and Westminster, the financial and legislative nerve centre of the country. The policy of fiscal tightening agreed by the main parties has failed by their own admission to produce the benefits claimed, and has widened the gaps in an already unequal society. Their determination to apply a stronger dose of the same failed medicine is widely seen as irrational by independent economists. My experience advising business leaders and governments around the world gives me confidence in Green Party policies which challenge the misguided beliefs of the elite.”
Hugh lives in Marylebone where he grew up. He is an active campaigner for improved pedestrian and cycling facilities in the City of Westminster and for measures to reduce road danger including the 20 mph speed limit which has been so successful elsewhere in London.
He began his career as a ‘junior suit’ at Ford’s in Dagenham. At the end of his career in industry he was successively a partner in two of the most prestigious US-based strategic management consultancies. In between, he worked in California’s Silicon Valley, in Chile, and in France. He has advised governments in Europe and Asia on the liberalisation and regulation of the telecommunications industry, and helped new entrants to the market.
Among Hugh’s interests is the history of Victorian public health reform. He wrote an acclaimed biography of Florence Nightingale which exposed for the first time her central role in reducing premature mortality in the entire population. His particular interest is in the use of the same data-driven approach to social reform as in industry.
