Cat Drew
Director, Uscreates
Cat oversees delivery and direction of projects at Uscreates by using data and design techniques, ensuring that they link to the client’s wider strategic objectives and deliver impact.
Previously Cat was a senior policy advisor at Policy Lab, working with government departments to promote design-based techniques in policymaking, and Head of Policy IT & Digitisation Policy at the Home Office. She was responsible for supporting police forces to become digital by working with tech experts and forces to co-design a set of digital capabilities setting out what a digital force looks like. Prior to that Cat was Head of Neighbourhood Policing at the Home Office, and a researcher at IPPR.
Cat writes and presents widely on using data & design for social innovation, and co-presents BBC Radio 4’s The Fix series on fresh approaches to policy design.