Dan Corry was the head of the Number 10 Policy Unit for British prime minister Gordon Brown.
[1][2] Dan's maternal family came from Brick Lane in the east end of London,[3] and he followed his father Bernard Corry into economics.
[2] Corry began his career in the civil service as a labour market economist at the Department of Employment, then worked at HM Treasury from 1986 to 1989.
[4] Corry was Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers in HM Treasury from 2006 to 2007, then Director of the Number 10 Policy Unit from 2007 to 2008.
[4] During his time as a special adviser in the nineties he found himself at the heart of allegations that the government tried to smear survivors of the Ladbroke Grove rail crash.