Daniel Korski CBE
Senior Adviser
Daniel Korski CBE is a British-Danish entrepreneur, ex-diplomat, think tanker, and politico. Born in Denmark in 1977 to a family who fled Poland in the 1960s, Daniel moved to the U.K. in the 1990s and has worked in business, politics and philanthropy. Graduating from the London School of Economics and the University of Cambridge, Daniel worked in Bosnia for then-UN envoy Lord Paddy Ashdown on the country's post-war reconstruction, and was then an advisor to the UK Parliament’s Defence Select Committee.
He then went to work in what is now the FCDO, going on postings in Afghanistan, the US and Iraq and working as an advisor to the then-International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell MP. Leaving government, he helped found the European Council on Foreign Relations, and then served as a strategic adviser to the EU’s High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, helping the build the then-new External Action Service.
After a few years in Brussels he returned to the UK to become an advisor and then as deputy head of the Number 10 Policy Unit under Prime Minister David Cameron from 2013 to 2016. Daniel left government to create a number of technology business including PUBLIC, Eva Healthcare Technologies and FreeUp/Earnd. He founded the GovTech Summit and has invested in a number of startups.
Out of government, Daniel served on a range of government panels, from the Digital Economy Council and the HeathTech Advisory Panel to to the Freeport Advisory Panel set up by then Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. He ran MP Tom Tugendhat’s’ Conservative Party leadership campaign and in 2024 sought to become the Conservative Party nominee for London mayor, proposing innovative funding solutions for public services.
He has served as a vice president of the Jewish Leadership Council, as Chair of the Welcoming Committee for Hong Kongers, which he founded, and on the board of the Jewish Museum in London. He founded Forgotten Exodus, an archive to collect testimonies from Jews in Poland forced to leave the country in the 1960s.