Jock’s first career was on the Stock Exchange with stints at various stock-brokers and jobbers straight out of school, culminating in private client equities portfolio management.  He then moved into developing IT systems for investment management and banking applications in the late 1980s and has been involved in IT support and development ever since, moving to Oxford in 1993 and to Oxford Brookes University in 1996.
Jock served on the City Council for three years up till 2002 and in that time was particularly involved in planning, housing and economic development.  Since then he has been developing ideas for alternative solutions to Oxford’s housing problems and was a founder member of OCLT in 2003.
Jock’s main passion is alternative economics, and in particular looking at ways in which people and communities can develop their own public and social goods without, and sometimes in spite of, government interference.  He is currently editing a book of essays on land taxation which will be published as part of celebrations to commemorate 100 years since Lloyd-George’s famous 1909 budget.
He is also a governor of Oxford Brookes University, chair of the Oxfordshire Social Enterprise Forum and a director of Social Enterprise South East (SE2 Partnership).  He is also working on a project aiming to bring wireless internet access to the whole of the city, Wireless Oxford.
Does all the spread sheets and finance thinking.