Polly Curtis is a journalist, editor, and author. Currently, she is Chief Executive of the think tank Demos.Curtis spent much of her career at The Guardian, where she started as a health and education reporter, then became the Whitehall Editor, writing about government and policy, then the Digital Editor. She then became Editor-in-Chief at HuffPost UK, a Partner at Tortoise Media, and Managing Director at PA Media.Curtis's first book, "Behind Closed Doors," was published in 2022.