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Madeleine Gabriel

Mission Director, sustainable future mission

Madeleine leads Nesta’s mission to significantly cut carbon emissions from UK homes by 2030.

Her team works with national, devolved and local governments, consumers and industry to develop, test and scale up ideas, policies and initiatives that can speed up the transition to greener homes.

Madeleine previously led Nesta’s work on inclusive innovation, researching ways to create an equitable, innovation-led economy in the UK. She has published widely on innovation practices that promote sustainability and social impact. Madeleine has also worked as a consultant evaluating local and national government programmes across a wide range of policy areas, including public health, housing, learning and skills and local economic development.

Madeleine Gabriel

About Nesta

Madeleine Gabriel

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A sustainable future

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Heat pumps take centre stage: learnings from Installer Show 2025

What could the state’s role be in shared infrastructure for low-carbon heat?

Clean heat needs shared infrastructure - could the state play a bigger role?

How government can deliver clean heat for homes

Delivering clean heat: a policy plan

For the first time, UK household electricity prices rose to levels higher than those in any EU country

The future of energy retail: how we could reshape the market

Nesta responds to Welsh Government proposed heat pump target

Future of energy retail: how could the electricity retail market be designed to better support net zero delivery?

The future of energy retail: why we need to rethink the market

Do the UK public know their EPCs as well as their ABCs?

The big turn-off: shutting down the gas grid

A policy plan for decarbonising home heating

The electricity-to-gas price ratio explained

Money Saving Boiler Challenge: supporting evidence October 2022

Free and low-cost energy-saving actions to bring down bills, improve energy security and help the planet

Assessing government plans to obligate boiler manufacturers to support heat pumps

Breaking the gas habit: how the energy crisis spotlights the need for green alternatives

A sustainable future: how ditching your boiler could save the planet

Democratising Innovation Policy: How community organising can help build a more inclusive economy

Which English local authorities have received government grants for home decarbonisation?

Decarbonising homes: Consumer attitudes towards energy efficiency and green heating in the UK

How do we transition to green homes?

Reducing household emissions: How can we get consumers on board?

Heating engineers could hold the key to unlocking the low carbon revolution.

We're open-sourcing the code behind our map to support workers at risk

Greening our homes could kickstart an economic recovery – but we need new ideas

Will the Lifetime Skills Guarantee help people find jobs in the aftermath of COVID-19?

Millions plunged into financial and work insecurity need innovative solutions

Innovation after Lockdown

The role of innovation in the UK’s COVID-19 recovery

Workers’ take on change

Nesta responds to Budget 2020

Is the UK Getting Innovation Right?

Mapping ‘career causeways’ for workers in the age of automation

Innovating UK Innovation Policy

Recapping our analysis of the party manifestos

The SNP Manifesto: Our response

The Conservative Manifesto: Our response

The Labour Manifesto: Our response

The Liberal Democrat Manifesto: Our response

What the next UK Government should do

Precarious to prepared

More R&D spend should be mission-led

Smarter data for inclusive innovation

Imagination rebooted

A knowledge economy that works for all

Imagination Unleashed: Democratising the knowledge economy

Exclusive innovations: four ways innovators get it wrong

Educating the next generation of UK innovators

Opportunity Lost: How inventive potential is squandered and what to do about it

Making innovation policy work for everyone

How inclusive is innovation policy?

EU Commissioner: "We will put more money into social innovation”

Shifting the dial on diversity in innovation

For a Fairer, More Inclusive Europe, Sign the #SIDeclaration

Some ideas are more equal than others

Grand Challenges are so 2017. Bring on the missions

Announcing the Everyone Makes Innovation Policy programme grantees

Call for ideas: How to involve the public in developing innovation policy?

Help us co-produce a European Declaration for Social Innovation

How can innovation policy get better at delivering social benefit?

Social innovation policy in Europe: where next?

How is EU employment policy driving social innovation?

Is there a role for innovation in tackling global inequality?

Opening up health innovation around the world

Six initiatives opening up health innovation around the world

Open innovation in health: A guide to transforming healthcare through collaboration

Testing open innovation methods for public health in São Paulo

São Paulo, snakes and citizen science

Better for less: Does Europe need frugal innovation?

What Nesta’s learning about learning

Opening up Sao Paulo’s health innovation system