Adam Hawksbee was Deputy Director of the centre-right think tank Onward, and Chair of the Prime Minister’s Towns Unit.

He was previously Head of Policy to Andy Street, Mayor of the West Midlands. Adam is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where he was a Kennedy Fellow, and has worked with US Mayors as a Research Fellow at the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative and during a period at the New York City Mayor’s Office of Operations. As Chair of the No.10 and Dept for Levelling Up Towns Unit he supported 75 towns receiving a £20m endowment as part of the £1.5bn Long Term Plan for Towns.