Florence Heath is one of the Co-Founders of the TaxPayers' Alliance. Together with Matthew and Andrew, she set up the organisation in the run-up to its launch in 2004, meeting in coffee shops and working out of a student bedroom in between revision for finals. After the launch she co-ordinated grassroots activities before moving on to outreach projects, all done in a voluntary capacity.
Florence was brought up in France and moved to London in 2000 to study at Imperial College where she read Geology and went on to do a Masters in Petroleum Geology. Florence led the student Conservative association at Imperial College for two years as well as the Europe-wide European Young Conservatives, and served on the committees of the local Conservative associations, Conservative Friends of Gibraltar and the cross-party Youth for a Free Europe. She has also been closely involved with the International Young Democrats Union.
In the summer of 2001, Florence spent several months as a Charles G. Koch Fellow in Washington, D.C., where she worked for a free-market environmental think tank and was greatly inspired by the strength of grassroots movements and public policy organisations in the US.
Florence currently works as a geologist for an international petroleum company.
Pamphlets
"People, Not Budgets: Valuing Disabled Children", Florence Heath and Richard Smith, Centre for Policy Studies: September 2004
