Eamonn Ives

Research Director

Eamonn Ives is the Research Director at The Entrepreneurs Network, having joined in September 2022.

Eamonn oversees our entire research pipeline – from initally deciding which issues to focus on, to carrying out research, to publishing final reports. His own research primarily focuses on securing the conditions necessary for increasing the rate of economic growth, accelerating frontier innovation, and promoting clean and abundant energy technologies.

Reports that Eamonn has published while at The Entrepreneurs Network include:

• Small Wonders: How SMRs can power a clean, competitive and secure economy

• Job Creators 2024: The foreign-born founders building our fastest-growing businesses

• Backing Breakthrough Businesses

• Building Blocks: Our vision for securing Britain’s entrepreneurial future

• Academic to entrepreneur: Unlocking the Potential of UK Spinouts

• Operation Innovation: How to make society richer, healthier and happier

• Green Entrepreneurship

Before joining The Entrepreneurs Network, Eamonn served as a Special Adviser to the Rt Hon Alok Sharma MP in his role as the President of COP26. Prior to that, he worked at the Centre for Policy Studies as their Head of Energy and Environment, authoring eight policy reports.

Eamonn has featured extensively in the print and broadcast media, writing for CapX, The Times, The Telegraph, City A.M., ConservativeHome, and Reaction, and featuring on BBC Radio 4, LBC, Times Radio, and various podcasts.