Tom Gash

Tom is Managing Director of Leapwise and Senior Fellow of the Institute for Government. He oversees all Leapwise projects across policing and justice in the UK and internationally, supporting police forces and government departments to improve public outcomes and productivity. He has been a key advocate for police reform in the UK, including as co-author of Fit for the Future: The Case for a Reformed National Policing Landscape which was cited in the Home Office press release announcing the creation of a new National Centre of Policing.

Prior to founding Leapwise, Tom was Director of Research at the Institute for Government, a senior adviser on home affairs in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit in the mid-2000s, and a strategy consultant working with FTSE 100 firms with the Boston Consulting Group. He is author of Times ‘Thought’ Book of the Year “Criminal: The Truth About Why People Do Bad Things” (Penguin, 2016), a speaker on criminal and organisational decision-making, and a regular print and media commentator (BBC, Sky, ABC, Fox). Tom has directed over 100 consulting and research projects and authored over 30 academic and practitioner focused articles, as well as articles for The Financial Times, The Times, The Guardian, WIRED, and Prospect Magazine