Torsten Bell

Torsten Bell
Official portrait, 2024
Member of Parliament
for Swansea West
Assumed office
4 July 2024
Preceded byGeraint Davies
Majority8,515 (17.1%)
Personal details
BornSeptember 1982 (age 42)
Greenwich,[1] England, United Kingdom
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
Political partyLabour
Children2[2]
Alma materMansfield College, Oxford
Known forChief Executive of the Resolution Foundation (2015–2024)

Torsten Henricson-Bell FAcSS (born September 1982) is a Labour politician, economist, author, and newspaper columnist, serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Swansea West since 2024.[3]

Previously he was the chief executive of the Resolution Foundation, an economic thinktank, from 2015 to 2024.

He was appointed to the Resolution Foundation in 2015 after having served as Ed Miliband's Director of policy, and as a Treasury civil servant who became special adviser to Alistair Darling during the 2007–2008 financial crisis.[4]

  1. ^ Eaton, George (4 January 2023). ""This country doesn't invest in its own future": Torsten Bell on why the UK is being hit hardest". The New Statesman. Archived from the original on 8 June 2023. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
  2. ^ Bell, Torsten (13 June 2024). Great Britain? How We Get Our Future Back (1st ed.). Vintage. ISBN 9781529932409.
  3. ^ "Swansea West – General election results 2024". BBC News. Retrieved 2024-07-05.
  4. ^ "Ed Miliband's former head of policy appointed director of living standards think tank". Independent. 4 September 2015. Retrieved 7 October 2022.