Torsten Bell (b. 1982) is the chief executive of the Resolution Foundation, an economic thinktank. He was appointed in 2015, having been Ed Miliband's head of policy and a Treasury civil servant who became special adviser to Alistair Darling.[1]
Bell's parents are Clem Henricson, a policy analyst and activist, and Bill Bell, an academic and children’s rights advocate. His twin brother, Olaf, is a civil servant.[2]
Bell has been associated with the coordination of policy developments for the Labour Party.[3] He has received recognition across various factions within the party for his attention to detail.[4]
Bell writes regularly about poverty and inequality in the United Kingdom,[5] about the North–South divide in England and the levelling-up policy of the British government.[6] He described the September 2022 United Kingdom mini-budget as "the biggest unforced economic policy error of my lifetime."[7]
In November 2022, Bell was appointed Honorary Professor at the UCL Policy Lab.[8]
In September 2023, Bell was named as the tenth most powerful left wing figure in the UK by the New Statesman.[9]