The Centre's current research is organised around four core priorities: • Promoting skills, opportunity and good work; • Meeting housing needs and building better neighbourhoods; • Tackling congestion and pollution, and creating more liveable roads and streets; • Strengthening relations with the rest of the UK.
Other trustees include Ben Page, Chief Executive of Ipsos Mori and Mark Boleat, Deputy Chairman of the City of London Corporation's Policy and Resources Committee.
In 2013, it published an influential report by Kitty Usher, arguing that the Mayor of London should be given the power to set a statutory minimum wage for the capital.
[5] A 2014 report by Charles Leadbeater coined the term "Endies" (short for Employed with No Disposable Income or Savings) in describing the large percentage of Londoners in work but struggling with the capital's high cost of living.
[10] More recently in 2018, the Centre published Human Capital,[11] a report produced in association with Ernst & Young, which suggested that almost a third of London's jobs have high potential for automation.
[15] In recent years, its research has also focussed on estate densification, the barriers preventing councils from house building and the development opportunities at London's stations.
Boris Johnson, former mayor of London, has spoken at the Conference three times, with other speakers including Lord Peter Mandelson, David Miliband, Sadiq Khan and Benjamin Barber.