David George Green (born 24 January 1951)[1] is the chief executive of the British think tank Civitas, which he founded in 2000.
He is an author who also writes for British newspapers,[2] including The Times, The Sunday Times, the Daily Mail, the Sunday Telegraph and The Daily Telegraph, and has taken part in broadcast programmes such as Newsnight, the Moral Maze and Today.
He was a Labour councillor in Newcastle upon Tyne from 1976 until 1981 before leaving the UK to work as a Research Fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra for the next two years.
His book, Community Without Politics (London, IEA, 1997) was awarded the Sir Antony Fisher Memorial Prize in 1997.
[5] In 2004 he was voted one of Britain's top 100 British intellectuals by readers of Prospect magazine.