Solving our greatest challenges through innovation

My mission is to solve our greatest societal challenges. I focus on the intersection of national policy, frontier technology — including AI — and large-scale operational reform, turning ideas that already exist into change that reaches people at scale. My background spans government, energy, defence and industry, in organisations ranging from start-ups and social enterprises to multinational corporations and governments.

As a leader, I work at the point where strategy meets delivery. I advise leaders at the top of government and industry, from the National Technology Adviser to Permanent Secretaries, and lead the programmes that turn that advice into change: reframing systemic challenges into solvable problems, convening coalitions across government, industry and research, and moving genuinely novel solutions from strategy into delivery, quickly enough to matter.

Increasingly, that work has convinced me the challenge ahead isn't inventing new solutions — it's changing how we think about the problems, scanning beyond boundaries to find the missing pieces of the puzzle, and building the kind of people, careers and institutions that can combine them. That means focusing on adopting ideas, not just generating them, and learning to work in genuine partnership with AI rather than simply deploying it as a tool. I write about that shift here, alongside the practitioner work that tests it in the real world.

I'm always glad to hear from people thinking about the same questions, wherever they sit — government, industry, or somewhere in between.