Jon Bloomfield

Jon Bloomfield has more than forty years experience as policy maker and practitioner engaged with cities in the UK and Europe. From 2009-2021 he was a senior adviser on the EU’s largest climate change programme, Climate KIC.

Since 2005 he has been an Honorary research fellow in the School of Public Policy at Birmingham University where he pursues a range of policy interests on European governance; the environment; migration; the role of cities; and national populism. During the 1980s Jon was on the board of Marxism Today and covered the 1989 Velvet Revolution for ‘The Guardian.’ His book, ‘Our City: Migrants and the Making of Modern Birmingham’ was published in 2019. His latest ‘The Little Black Book of the Populist Right’ co-authored with David Edgar was published in 2024 with an updated edition appearing in spring 2026.