# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/will-hutton
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:21:36.328Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/will-hutton"
name: "Will Hutton"
slug: "will-hutton"
description: "William Nicolas Hutton is an English journalist. As of 2022, he writes a regular column for The Observer, co-chairs the Purposeful Company, and is the president-designate of the Academy of Social Sciences. He is the chair of the advisory board of the UK National Youth Corps. He was principal of Hertford College, University of Oxford from 2011 to 2020, and co-founder of the Big Innovation Centre, an initiative from the Work Foundation, having been chief executive of the Work Foundation from 2000 to 2008. He was formerly editor-in-chief of The Observer."
tagline: "British political economist and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Will_Hutton.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1950-05-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             14.68421052631579
  historical:           5.297914666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/williamnhutton"
    handle:    "williamnhutton"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump