Chris Pond, Esq

Career: research asst Birkbeck Coll London 1974-75, research offr Low Pay Unit 1975-79, lectr in econs Civil Serv Coll 1979-80, dir Low Pay Unit 1980-97 (chair 1997-99); MP (Lab) Gravesham 1997-2005, memb Select Ctee on Social Security 1997-99, PPS to Rt Hon Dawn Primarolo, MP (as Paymaster Gen) 1999-2003, Parly under sec of State Dept of Work and Pensions 2003-05; chief exec Nat Cncl for One Parent Families 2005-07; FSA: dir of financial capability 2007-10, sr advsr 2010-11, head of consumer affrs 2011-; chair Capacity Builders UK Ltd 2005-09, vice-chair End Child Poverty 2007; memb: FSA Working Gp on Families 2005, FSA Steering Gp on Financial Capability 2006, Cncl Inst of Fiscal Studies 2006-, Thoresen Review Reference Gp 2007; ind advsr HMRC Ctee on Ethics and Responsibility 2010-; former memb Mgmnt Ctees of Unemployment Unit and Child Poverty Action Gp; non-exec dir Cape Claims Servs 2006-; conslt on social policy to EC 1995-96; visiting lectr in econs Univ of Kent 1981-82, visiting prof/research fell Univ of Surrey 1984-86, conslt Open Univ 1987-88 and 1991-92, hon visiting prof Middx Univ 1996-; tstee Family and Parenting Inst 2009-; memb: TGWU, Royal Acad

Books and Publications: Inflation and Low Incomes (1975), Trade Unions and Taxation (1976),To Him Who Hath (1977), The Povery Trap: a study in statistical sources (1978), Taxing Wealth Inequalities (1980) Taxation and Social Policy (1981), Low Pay: Labour's Response (1983), The Changing Distribution of Income, Wealth and Poverty, in Restructuring Britain (1989), A New Social Policy For The Active Society (chapter in Old and New Poverty, 1995), Beyond 2002 - Long Term Policies for Labour (jtly, 1999)