Meet our team from offices around the world.
Executive team
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Professor David Halpern CBE
President & Founding Director
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Rachel Coyle MBE
Global Managing Director
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Elisabeth Costa
Chief of Innovation and Partnerships
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Dr Michael Hallsworth
Chief Behavioural Scientist
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Naomi Crowther
Finance Director
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Jacqueline Lewis
Nesta Group General Counsel and Company Secretary, Legal Team
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Dr Alex Gyani
Managing Director, APAC
Management
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Dr Hannah Behrendt
Director, Health and Wellbeing
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Nida Broughton
Director, Economic Policy
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Dr Serene Koh
Director Singapore
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Mónica Wills Silva
Director - International Programmes
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Sasha Tregebov
Director, BIT Canada
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Laura Litvine
Director - BIT France
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Dr Abigail Mottershaw
Head of Online Research & Innovation
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Eva Myers
Director - Economic Policy
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Ed Flahavan
Director, Home Affairs, Security and Education
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Dr Helen Brown
Interim Director of International Programmes
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Mia Mayixuan Li
Advisor
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Meredith Jones
Principal Advisor
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Melissa Portilla
Advisor
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Meg Hancock-Orloff
Head of Data Visualisation
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Mayra Alejandra Cabrera
Senior Advisor
mayra.cabrera@bi.team
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Maxime Sirera
Junior Advisor
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Matthew Smith
Head of Knowledge, Learning and Development
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Mat Ilic
Co-founder & CEO - greenworkx
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Martina Vojtkova
Group Director of Research, BIT and Nesta
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Martin Wessel
Advisor