Vicki Costello
As Lab Development Manager Vicki designs and delivers projects that test new models for supporting and scaling social innovation.
She is currently leading on the Big Green Challenge - NESTA's £1m prize fund to incentivise and support community-led innovation in response to climate change. The challenge prize, which is one of the first for the not-for-profit sector, encourages new community-led responses to climate change, and explores the conditions needed to support these approaches.
Vicki joined NESTA in 2003, and previously worked in the Learning Programme (closed in 2006), and in cross-programme monitoring and development roles, before joining the Innovation Challenges team in 2007.
Prior to NESTA, Vicki worked in the performing arts sector as a fundraiser, manager and writer.