Forward Thinking

"Charity"
Forward Thinking
(Deep state faction?)
"Charity"; Forward Thinking ; (Deep state faction?)
Founder	Oliver McTernan
Headquarters	1 Quality Court, London, UK
Membership	• Yael Banaji; • Cecily Bayliss; • Francis Campbell; • Alice Copland; • Yusuf Desai; • Chris Donnelly; • Justin Dowley; • Dympna Hayes; • Jeremy Greenstock; • Michael Holland; • Huda Jawad; • Raymond Jolliffe; • Iftikhar Malik; • Shayk Michael Mumisa; • Oliver McTernan; • Jordan Morgan; • William Sieghart; • Harry Weeks
	"An organisation which claims to be working to solve the middle east crisis", with at least 3 senior staff of the Institute for Statecraft

Forward Thinking is, as Mike Robinson puts is, "an organisation which claims to be working to solve the middle east crisis".^[1]

Own words

"Forward Thinking is a proactive, demand-driven, independent non-governmental organisation."^[2]

Co-founder/director, Oliver McTernan, was a senior member of the UK deep state faction, the Institute for Statecraft which also had UK charitable status until its dissolution in 2023 (after the Integrity Initiative Leaks). Founder of the IfS, Chris Donnelly is also a member of Forward Thinking. Yusuf Desai was a senior IfS fellow whose specialist area was listed as "Societal Integration, Ethnic Communities; Youth Engagement"

The group was co-founded by Oliver McTernan in 2004.^{[citation needed]}

Employee	Job	Appointed
Oliver McTernan	Director	January 2004

5 of the 25 of the members already have pages here:

Member	Description
Chris Donnelly	A UK Deep politician who set up the Institute for Statecraft (amongst other groups).
Jeremy Greenstock	UK diplomat who held a number of influential posts such as UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations and Chairman of the UNSC's Counter-Terrorism Committee, Brussels Forum
Dympna Hayes	Ex-ambassador who joined a bunch of known deep state operatives on Forward Thinking’s Board of Trustees
Helena Kennedy	Scottish barrister, broadcaster, member of the House of Lords.
Oliver McTernan	Spooky priest with a range of hats, including director of the Institute for Statecraft and "a large network of political/community contacts in Middle East and North Africa."

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