The Sunlight Centre for Open Politics is committed to helping the public to be their own watchdog by improving access to existing information which is difficult to obtain and digitising this information and thus fostering greater transparency and openness in the British political system. 

Media Director:

Harry Cole – harry@sunlight-cops.org.uk

Harry was one of the founding members of Sunlight in July 2008.  He graduated from Edinburgh University in 2009 and runs several succesful internet projects. 

 

 

 

New Media Campaigns Director:

Mike Rouse – mike@sunlight-cops.org.uk

Mike first landed on the political new media scene as the technical and new media director of Britain’s first internet-based current affairs and politics TV station, which saw him short-listed in 2007 for a New Statesman New Media Award in the Young Innovator category. Since then he has run a popular new media design and development agency that launched.

 

 

 Research Assistant:

Juliet Samuel  - juliet@sunlight-cops.org.uk

Juliet graduated from Harvard in June 2009 and moved back to London soon after. She studied Social Studies with a focus on German social theory. 

 

 

 

 Founder:

Paul Staines – team@sunlight-cops.org.uk

Irish entrepreneur and investor in internet ventures.

 

 

 

If you are interested in working as an intern for the Sunlight Centre why not drop us an email?