Sunder Katwala

He is the director of British Future, a UK-based think tank,[1] and former general secretary[2] of the Fabian Society.

The think-tank's[4] call for the adoption of an English national anthem, backed by MPs from different UK political parties, won the support of Prime Minister David Cameron, according to reports on the website ConservativeHome[5] and in The Sunday Telegraph.

[6] He was previously with The Observer newspaper, as a leader writer and internet editor, and was Research Director of The Foreign Policy Centre think-tank from 1999 to 2001.

In 2010 the Daily Telegraph included Katwala at number 32 in its list of the '100 most influential left-wingers[9]' in British politics, while he was Fabian General Secretary.

Katwala was born in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, to an Irish Catholic mother from Cork and an Indian father who converted to Catholicism.