Jonathan Black was the Heywood Fellow for 2024.

Jonathan Black served as the Prime Minister’s G7/G20 Sherpa and Deputy National Security Adviser (2019-2022), including during the UK’s Presidencies of the G7 and COP26 in 2021. He was Deputy Head of the Europe Unit at the Cabinet Office and one of the UK’s principal Brexit negotiators (2017-2019). He has also held a number of senior roles at HM Treasury on economic and international policy, including Press Secretary to George Osborne (2011-2014) and Private Secretary to Chancellors of the Exchequer Gordon Brown and Alastair Darling (2005-2007). He also served as the UK Director of the European Investment Bank and Alternate Director at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He is an Emeritus Governor at the London School of Economics.