Meet the entrepreneurial leaders that are driving the Inclusive Economy Partnership.
The Inclusive Economy Partnership is driven by a passionate team of Civil Servants across the Cabinet Office and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
Shevaun joined the Government in 2016 as Deputy Director of Business Partnerships for the Cabinet Office. She now also runs the Inclusive Economy Partnership.
Shevaun started her career in consultancy in London and New York. She then moved to the Walt Disney Company in strategic planning before joining Disneyland Paris, opening the second theme park. Shevaun then joined the agency world running global accounts for Millward Brown, Mindshare and WPP.
Following this, she became a partner in a start-up digital innovation agency and venture builder, Independents United, where she also became an Advisor for the Danson Foundation.
Most recently, Shevaun was the New Ventures Director for Avado, building new businesses in Edtech and founding the Academy of Digital Business Leaders. Shevaun is a social impact investor, sits on the Ventures Advisory Board of UnLtd, and is Trustee of Barefoot College International.
It has the potential to really scale social innovation across the UK to help thousands of more people who need it. The power of the UK in partnership!
Mary is the strategic lead for the Inclusive Economy Partnership and sits in the Business Partnerships Team in the Cabinet Office. She is responsible for developing and driving high-impact action across the internal IEP team and our Advisory Board. In addition, she manages the Cabinet Office's relationship with financial services and professional services firms; helping them to navigate Whitehall and to bring their voice into early policy development.
Mary has over ten years experience of designing mutually beneficial strategies and programmes for non-profit organisations and FTSE 100 companies. Prior to joining the Government, Mary was a Director at Three Hands, where she spent seven years working with corporates to embed social purpose into their core business. This included developing strategic CSR programmes, delivering high-impact community engagement programmes and designing community action leadership development programmes.
For me, the magic of the IEP is its ability to unleash the activist in CEOs.
Anna is Head of Responsible Business for the Government Inclusive Economy Unit, focused on influencing business to be a greater force for good in society by catalysing action and partnerships and promoting a culture of business accountability. Anna previously spent over 15 years leading sustainability and strategy in the private sector, latterly as Global Sustainable Development Director for SABMiller.
I love the way that the IEP has brought individuals from diverse business, civil society and government organisations together to focus on big social challenges - and most of all the genuine trust and collaboration that has been created, often in quite unexpected ways.
Alice is the Communications and Stakeholder Engagement Manager for the IEP and sits in the Business Partnerships Team in the Cabinet Office. She is responsible for cultivating our community, telling our story and helping to build the movement of the IEP.
Before joining the Cabinet Office, Alice led on Communications and Community Engagement for one of the IEP’s Social Innovators, Workfinder. She also completed the Teach First Leadership Development Programme and taught in East London.
The IEP doesn’t just talk about change – it delivers it. We are taking on challenges that are not easy to solve and driving real change for people who need it most.
Lizzy Hawkins is a Senior Policy Advisor in the Responsible Business team in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, with a remit to encourage and enable more businesses to be a force for good in society.
Lizzy has worked in the Civil Service for ten years, focussing on the development and delivery of business and trade policy. After leading the Commercial team in the British Embassy in Jakarta from 2013 - 2015 she supported the foundation of Angels of Impact, a social enterprise in Singapore. She is passionate about the role that businesses can play in improving the lives of the people and communities they touch.
The combination of brilliant civil society experts, brought together by government with passionate businesses which reach millions of people, has the potential to turbo-charge solutions to painful social problems.
Emily leads the mental health strand of the Inclusive Economy Partnership and works to accelerate corporate commitment and effectiveness in supporting mental health at work. As part of the Business Partnerships Team, she manages the Cabinet Office's relationship with energy, manufacturing and construction firms; advising them on how to navigate government and create high impact partnerships with Government to deliver meaningful policy and campaigns.
She joined the Civil Service in 2017 and previously worked as a consultant on policy and social impact projects in London, Geneva and Johannesburg.
I am passionate about positively impacting the mental health of society, particularly in supporting the role that business can play.
Baz Acar is a Policy Adviser in the Responsible Business team in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Within the IEP, Baz leads on our Transition to Work Steering Group and coordinates all engagement with the government ministers who champion and support the IEP.
In a past life he has worked as a management consultant and has run his own street food truck, melting toasties on the streets of London.
The IEP is the leading edge of a movement away from purely profit-driven motivations and towards accepting everyone's responsibility to society.
Rashanne is a Policy Adviser in the Responsible Business team in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport. She leads the Financial Inclusion & Capability strand of the IEP and the development of the evaluation framework. Previously, she worked for a financial services and media company, specialising in working with banking and research clients.
I believe that the IEP presents a unique opportunity to create a society where everyone has access to tools to improve their financial and mental wellbeing. Through partnership and collaboration, we can improve the lives of millions of people across the country.
