Stephen Pollard is President of the Centre for the New Europe, a Brussels-based think tank. Previously he was senior Fellow and director of its health policy programme. He is also a columnist with The Times and writes for a number of other newspapers, including the Daily Mail.
He is Chairman of the European Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism.
In February 2005 he was an expert witness before the US Senate, testifying in the HELP Committee's inquiry into drug importation.
His biography of David Blunkett, the former Home Secretary, was published in December 2004.
From 1998-2000 he was a columnist and Chief Leader Writer on the Daily Express.
From 1995-98 he was Head of Research at the Social Market Foundation, and from 1992-95 Research Director at the Fabian Society.
He is the author of numerous pamphlets and books on health and education policy, and is co-author with Andrew Adonis of the best-selling A Class Act - the Myth of Britain's Classless Society (Penguin, 1998).
He was described by the BBC as 'Britain's most prolific columnist'; has been called a 'Labour guru' on the front page of the Sunday Times; and is, according to the Guardian, the man who showed Tony Blair how to reform the NHS - an accusation for which he made the paper make a grovelling apology.