Mark is an independent policy and urban consultant and Visiting Professor of Public Policy at King’s College London. He has been a government adviser at the No10 Strategy Unit, a senior civil servant at the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, and a policy director for three London Mayors. He is the author or co-author of four books, including A European Welfare State? (Palgrave) and Working Capital: Life and Labour in Contemporary London (Routledge) and more than 100 published papers.
In 2015, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, and in 2019 a Visiting Fellow at the City Futures Research Centre, University of New South Wales. Mark has also been a consultant to the OECD, the European Commission, government departments, local authorities, and major UK and global companies.