Lily Downes

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Lily is a policy communications lead at Nesta and BIT, leading policy focused communications and public affairs for the sustainable future mission. She previously served as senior account director at Grayling, a public affairs agency, where she advised renewable energy and decarbonisation clients on their political engagement and communications strategies. Prior to that she delivered complex community consultation programmes for large-scale renewable energy infrastructure, such as offshore wind farms and solar farms.

Andrew Sissons

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Andrew is a director on Nesta's mission to create a sustainable future, which focuses on decarbonisation and economic recovery. His team focuses on setting up innovation projects and partnerships that reduce carbon emissions from homes, which is a key part of the UK reaching net zero. Andrew has a background in climate change, economic geography and productivity. Andrew joined Nesta from the Environment Agency, where he led the agency's work on funding and green finance, having previously been the agency's chief economist. He has worked in government (Cabinet Office, MHCLG) on cities and local growth policy, helping to create the new metro mayors in several cities in England. He has also previously worked at The Work Foundation and as an economic consultant.

Daniel Lewis

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Dan leads on data science and quantitative analysis for the sustainable future mission, working with the Data Analytics Practice to achieve Nesta's goal to decarbonise the UK’s homes. Before Nesta, Dan worked in the civil service as a Senior Spatial Data Scientist at the Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs, as a lecturer in data science at the Office for National Statistics, Data Science Campus, and for the NHS as an analyst team leader in data science and innovation at the Care Quality Commission. Across these roles, Dan gained experience designing and delivering research to answer policy and regulatory questions, building the capability of team members and leading and managing analytical teams. Dan’s background is as a quantitative geographer in the fields of population health and health services. He has worked on evaluating the impact of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games on the health and wellbeing of young people in East London and the effectiveness of the Olympic village’s ‘active design’ on residents' physical health and activity

Marcus Shepheard

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Marcus is the policy manager in Nesta's sustainable future mission. He is developing the breadth of our work on heat decarbonisation into evidence and advice to help inform Government policy. Marcus has a background in climate change governance and analysis. Marcus joined Nesta from the Climate Change Committee, where he was the lead analyst on residential decarbonisation. He has also worked for the Institute for Government and the Royal Society.

Juliette Caucheteux

Juliette is the senior economic adviser for Nesta’s central policy team and sustainable future mission. Before joining Nesta, Juliette worked in policy institutions (Bank of England, International Monetary Fund, French Treasury) as well as in the private sector. Juliette trained as an engineer in France (at the École des Ponts), then studied public policy at the London School of Economics. She is currently finishing her PhD in Economics at Oxford, where her research focuses on the economic consequences of natural disasters, using micro-level data.