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Background
Donald is an independent consultant, working two days a week as Head of Income Studies for CRSP. Details of his consultancy work and publications are on his own website.
Donald started his career as a journalist, and worked on the staff of The Economist in the late 1980s. He then spent three years on the staff of the OECD, comparing education and related policies of countries around the world. In the past fifteen years, his consultancy work has involved writing reports and making linkages between evidence and policy for a range of public bodies, charities and other organisations. From 1998 to 2008 he was Poverty Adviser to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, where he played a leading role in developing the Foundation’s analysis of child poverty, as well as working on a range of other poverty-related topics.
Donald joined CRSP in 2008 and takes an overview of a range of projects at the Centre related to income, poverty and debt.
See www.minimumincomestandard.org and www.donaldhirsch.com for publications and further information.
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