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.
Lily is a seconded Policy Advisor within the Responsible Business Team at DCMS. The Responsible Business team partners with businesses and civil society organisations to tackle entrenched social issues that no single actor can impact on alone. She is the DCMS lead on the Financial Inclusion and Capability Working Group and supports various aspects of the IEP.
Lily is an April 2020 Associate of the On Purpose programme, a year long leadership programme that transitions commercially skilled individuals into impactful sectors and purposeful organisations. DCMS is her second placement and follows 6 months at NatWest Social & Community Capital. Prior to On Purpose, Lily worked in the off-grid energy sector and within technology start-ups, which included taking part in the Y Combinator programme and setting up a deep technology growth programme at UCL.
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.
