Meet our team from offices around the world.
Executive team

Professor David Halpern CBE
President & Founding Director

Elisabeth Costa
Managing Director, BIT UK

Rachel Coyle MBE
Global Managing Director

Dr Rory Gallagher
Managing Director, Australia and Asia-Pacific

Dr Michael Hallsworth
Managing Director, BIT Americas

James Plunkett
Chief Practices Officer for Nesta and the Behavioural Insights Team

Emily Bushby
Nesta Group Chief Financial Officer, Finance

Ann Paul
Nesta Group Chief People Officer

Jacqueline Lewis
Nesta Group General Counsel and Company Secretary, Legal Team
Management

Dr Hannah Behrendt
Director, Health and Wellbeing

Nida Broughton
Director, Economic Policy

Dr Alex Gyani
Director, Australia

Dr Serene Koh
Director Singapore

Mónica Wills Silva
Director - International Programmes

Carolina Toth
Director of US Programs

Sasha Tregebov
Director, BIT Canada

Laura Litvine
Director - BIT France

Dr Abigail Mottershaw
Director of Research

Eva Myers
Director - Economic Policy

Ed Flahavan
Director, Home Affairs, Security and Education

Dr Helen Brown
Interim Director of Health & Wellbeing
All staff
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Arlette Ayoroa
Advisor

Bálint Dercsényi
Associate Advisor

Belinda Jivapong
Senior Methods Advisor

Ben Lethbridge
Head of Growth

Ben Szreter
Senior Policy Advisor to the CEO

Benji Horwell
Senior Advisor

Dr Bobby Stuijfzand
Head of Online Experiments and Data Science (Interim)

Dr Bowen J Fung
Senior Research Advisor

Bram Reitsma
Research Advisor

Brianne Kirkpatrick
Principal Advisor