This website contains the underlying research for the book A-Z of Inequality by Sebastian Chambers, illustrated by Helena Maxwell.
This extensive research was compiled by Laurens McDonald.
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Sebastian Chambers
Sebastian Chambers has first-hand experience of the practices and policies covered in The A-Z of Inequality, having had over thirty years' experience in the City advising private equity, banks and debt funds. He is a non-executive director of CIL Management Consultants, Neptune (the home interiors business) and STL Tech (the innovation incubator). Sebastian is an active Angel investor and has backed a range of start-ups, including Obby, KeyNest and Slip Safety Services.
Sebastian is Chair of Trustees for Firefly International, a Scottish charity that works with children impacted by conflict in Bosnia and the Middle East. Prior to 2020, he was a partner at CIL for over twenty years, working with high-growth UK and US companies and the private equity investors that back them. Previously, he ran a factory making door and building panels.
Sebastian is a chartered accountant, spending five years with PwC -where he was an audit manager for clients including Bank of America and BNP Paribas. He has a degree in economics and social sciences from Manchester University.
Laurens McDonald
Laurens specialises in social science research using
quantitative, qualitative and interdisciplinary techniques.
He read philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford
University and has a master's in global political economy
from Bristol University.
Helena Maxwell
Helena is an artist, illustrator and teacher. She works with
a broad range of publishers and has a regular slot in the
Sunday Times money section. She studied fine art at Bath
College and the Royal Drawing School and has a degree in
English literature from King's College, London.