Julian Le Grand has come a long way since being tear-gassed on the streets of Chicago on an anti-Vietnam war march.
His involvement with the anti-Vietnam war movement, which took in various parts of the United States, taught Le Grand about what he describes as "the power, but also the dangers", of government.
Nowadays a professor of social policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, he juggles high-flying academia with influencing the political agenda, previously acting as Tony Blair's senior policy adviser and now as chair of ministerial advisory board Health England.
In recent months Le Grand has ruffled more than a few feathers in the children's services sector for his controversial proposal to introduce social work practices, which would operate in a similar way to GP practices.
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