Kathy is our Head of Future Cities, where she focuses on place-based innovation and empowering cities to shape their destiny.

Current and recent projects she has led include:

• The Mayor’s Resilience Fund, the Mayor of London’s £1 million challenge fund to incentivise innovators solve 10 different challenges across the city
• The Climate Smart Cities Challenge, a global initiative to reduce greenhouse gases in cities
• The Rapid Recovery Challenge, aimed at improving access to jobs and money for people hardest hit by the economic shock resulting from COVID-19
• Flying High, a multi-sector collaboration to engage cities, industry, service users, residents and other stakeholders to shape the future of urban drone services.

Kathy is passionate about cities and communities, and has over a decade of experience in urban planning and working with local governments. She has designed and delivered capacity-building and technical assistance programmes to identify and scale up transformative new approaches to creating stronger communities and economies based on local assets and place-based strategies. She has worked on rural and urban development and regeneration schemes, planning proposals and transport plans in the public and private sector.