Ian Drummond

Senior Research Fellow

After working as an academic geographer for a number of years, Ian joined the civil service in 1999. After spending two years at the Department for Education, he joined the Small Business Service in 2001. Following the closure of the SBS in 2004, he moved to the DTI and worked in its successor departments until 2019. Throughout this time Ian’s role primarily involved developing the evidence base used to inform entrepreneurship and small business policy development.