Joe Guinan is President of The Democracy Collaborative where he focuses on political economy and economic system change. He is co-author of The Case for Community Wealth Building (Polity, 2020) and People Get Ready! Preparing for a Corbyn Government (O/R Books, 2019), which was named one of The Guardian’s best politics books of the year.

A former journalist, Joe was previously a program director at the Aspen Institute, a fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and a consultant to the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation. Born in England with dual Irish and British citizenship, he grew up in British labor movement circles and was educated at Balliol College, Oxford.

Joe was the executive director of the Next System Project at The Democracy Collaborative when it launched in 2016. Based in Washington, D.C., he writes regularly for an array of progressive outlets, is a frequently cited expert on the new economics in major news media, serves on several nonprofit boards, and is a commissioning editor of the journal Renewal.