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Rowan Conway
Just Transition Finance Lab
Deputy Director
Description
Rowan Conway is deputy director of the new Just Transition Finance Lab. She is also a Policy Fellow and Visiting Professor of Strategic Design, leading the Transformation by Design module of the MPA in Innovation, Public Policy and Public Value at UCL’s Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP).
Between 2019-2022 she worked with Professor Mariana Mazzucato to lead the Mission Oriented Innovation Network (MOIN) at IIPP, convening global policy-making institutions. Rowan is a practicing strategic designer, founder of the transdisciplinary non-profit Transformation by Design Ltd where she supports transformative innovation projects with industry, government and third sector collaboratives. She is also a Non-Executive Director at Live Work, a global service design agency.
Prior to joining UCL, Rowan was Director of Innovation at the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) where she set up the RSA Lab, an experimental space using design methods to explore, prototype and test research insights and policy ideas with government agencies, NGOs, academic partners, NHS Trusts, businesses and social enterprises.
Prior to that she has 15 years’ experience leading a wide range of design and engagement processes, notably the as part of the Design Team for London 2012 Olympic Park.
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