John Penrose is the Founder of the Centre for Small-State Conservatives. He is also Chair of the Conservative Party’s in-house think tank (the Conservative Policy Forum or CPF); a member of Onward think-tank’s Editorial Board; an Associate Fellow at Bright Blue think-tank; a founding Board member of the Council for Countering Online Disinformation; and a founding Commissioner of the Commission for Carbon Competitiveness as well. He is a prominent policy thought-leader on the centre-right of UK politics, as well as a former MP, Prime Ministerial anti-corruption Tsar and serial Government Minister.

The son of two teachers, John has also been a successful businessman working for blue chip firms including JPMorgan, McKinsey, Thompson publishing and Pearson PLC, as well as leading two entrepreneurial startups in educational software and credit data publishing. He is married and has two daughters. His hobbies are beekeeping, fishing and gardening.