James Edmund Moncrieff Elles (born 3 September 1949 in London) is a former Conservative Party Member of the European Parliament (MEP)[1][2] for South East England.

In 2019 he published the book 'Fiction, Fact and Future: The Essence of EU Democracy'[3] as an author[4] under the Haus Curiosities series of The University of Chicago Press.

The EIF aims to ensure that the European Union remains open to developments in the digital economy and benefits fully from it through enhanced global competitiveness and social progress.

Their purpose was to establish an inter-institutional system looking closely at long-term trends with a view to providing foresight, feeding in-principle ideas into strategic policy-making.

It is governed by a Steering Group where all EU institutions are represented at Secretary-General or substitute level meetings on a regular basis where Elles is Honorary President.