Senior Fellow

Dr. Howard Reed is Director of Landman Economics, one of the UK’s leading economic research consultancies. Howard is a leading specialist in microsimulation modelling of tax- benefit systems and other applied microeconomic analysis and is Director of Landman Economics, one of the UK’s leading economic research consultancies. He wrote the Landman Economics Tax-Transfer Model (TTM), one of the leading tax-benefit microsimulation models in the UK. Before founding Landman Economics, Howard was Chief Economist and Director of Research at the Institute for Public Policy Research from 2004 and 2008. Howard has been involved with a range of research with the Democracy Collaborative including the Indices of Systemic Trends for the US and UK, and analysis of financialization and wealth extraction in the US and UK.

Howard is also a Senior Research Fellow in Public Policy at the University of Northumbria in England, working as part of a team in SWECW examining the health case for basic income and a broader programme of policy development aimed at creating a new settlement of the same scale and sustainability as that of the Beveridge-inspired reforms of 1945. Howard was a co-author of the recently published book Act Now: A vision for a better future in which a team of leading researchers presents a compelling and achievable vision for a progressive future, outlining clear policies for welfare, health and social care, education, housing and more.

In August 2024 Howard became Treasurer of the Citizens Basic Income Trust, a charity which promotes debate on the feasibility and desirability of a Universal Basic Income.

Email: howard.r.reed@gmail.com