Halima Khan

Halima is a Director of the Public Services Lab and is responsible for overseeing programmes that test public service innovation in practice, with a particular focus on people powered public services.

Prior to joining NESTA in December 2010, Halima was Deputy Director at the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, Cabinet Office, providing policy advice to No.10 and Cabinet Office ministers on a range of domestic policy issues.

Halima has spent ten years working on public service reform in central and local government with a particular focus on social care, health and disability. This was preceded by working in international development for NGOs in South Africa and Pakistan as well as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Halima has a first class degree from Oxford University and a Masters in Public Administration (MPA ) from the Harvard Kennedy School, where she was a Knox Fellow, 2000-2002. Halima is also a member of the Council of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.