Social impact measurement platform Thrive has announced the appointment of leading social value economist Dr Daniel Fujiwara as its first head of economics.

Fujiwara is set to lead its dedicated in-house economics team.

He co-authored HM Treasury’s Green Book supplementary guidance on wellbeing and is internationally recognised for his work on wellbeing valuation, social value and econometrics. He previously founded Simetrica, the social value research consultancy now part of Simetrica-Jacobs.