Maddie leads the Business Partnerships team and Economic Marketing campaigns in the Cabinet Office and spent the last year leading the business support campaign in the COVID 19 hub.

Her current work centres on bringing government communications campaigns together to support economic recovery following the pandemic – including skills, jobs and business support.

Her previous roles have included the Department for International Trade; GREAT Britain Campaign and Number 10, all with a focus on international and domestic communications focused on business and government engagement.

Why I’m passionate about the IEP 

This year of all years, it’s never been more essential to put minds, resources and efforts together to take on the social and economic challenges the IEP is committed to challenging.

Phoebe is a Senior Communications and Stakeholder Engagement Manager in the Business Partnerships Team in the Cabinet Office. 

Phoebe's role is to lead IEP’s key programmes on mental health, financial inclusion and youth unemployment. 

She has spent the last two years working in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy managing cross-governmental campaigns, ministerial engagement and stakeholder relationships across a range of businesses, from large corporations to SMEs. 

Why I’m passionate about the IEP

Being part of the IEP allows me to work at the heart of government and in collaboration with business to find innovative solutions to age-old societal challenges. 

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.

Why I’m passionate about the IEP

For me, the magic of the IEP is its ability to unleash the activist in CEOs.

Nick is the Head of the Responsible Business Team at DCMS. He is also DCMS' lead on the IEP. Nick's team partners with businesses and civil society organisations to tackle entrenched social issues that no single actor can impact on alone. 

Previously, Nick led the government's work designing and launching non-profit organisations Fair4All Finance and Youth Futures Foundation. He has also worked in the non-profit sector, both for a humanitarian NGO and a renewable energy-focused philanthropist, as well as in the private sector. He is also currently the Acting Chair of a London-based charity that supports young refugees and asylum seekers. 

David works on the Business Partnerships Team at the Cabinet Office.

 He has extensive experience domestically and internationally working for government, private industry and third sector organisations.

He has run large projects across the world supporting business and government to work together to make the most of opportunities – most notably working on the Shanghai World Expo in 2010 – and has spent the last two years at the Department for International Trade helping external organisations and the Department to build stronger, more meaningful relationships.

Why I’m passionate about the IEP

Business and government working together is such a simple but powerful concept. The IEP does this and brings brilliant possibilities for tackling some of society's key challenges.