Public Policy
Building Bridges for Ukraine
Bridges for Ukraine highlights the key role of entrepreneurial partnerships in reconstructing a post-conflict Ukraine. As part of the roundtable series, Henrietta met with Ukrainian MPs, UK business leaders, and policy-makers to explore how British businesses can work collaboratively with Ukraine to build long-term, inclusive prosperity.
The White Paper puts forward think pieces from a number of leaders including the Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Svyrydenko as well Minister Gareth Thomas MP from the UK Department for Business and Trade, digital infrastructure pioneer Martha Lane Fox CBE and the Director of the new V&A East, Dr. Gus Casely-Hayford OBE. Aligning with their expertise, they explain what they believe reconstruction efforts need to achieve in their respective sectors, the challenges to be addressed along the way, and how cutting-edge ideas can inform successful delivery.
Read the White Paper here.
Henrietta co-chaired the Sustainability and Social Value Working Group at The British Academy
In 2024/25 and in collaboration with His Majesty's Treasury (HMT) and the Department for Business and Trade (DBT), as part of a larger strategy developing a new policy programme to explore the foundations of a sustainable and holistic strategy addressing fundamental questions about economic growth and development in the UK, bringing long-term and integrated thinking across disciplines to current policy debates.
Read the report here.
Southwark Land Commission
In 2023, Henrietta joined the Southwark Land Commission. Southwark Land Commission is the first commission of its kind in London, and only the second in England. It brought together a panel of experts, community groups and major landowners. Together they worked to free up more of Southwark's land, for the benefit of local people. The Commission considered current land use across Southwark and for more potential opportunities. It aimed to help change how we all think about land use in the city for evermore. The Land for Good: 2023 Southwark Land Commission report puts forward wide-ranging and ambitious proposals for land use in the Southwark Council, read the report here.
Henrietta brought much insight and expertise to the panel, drawing particularly on the work of the Prosperity Index which measures what matters to the prosperity of local communities & identifies strategies for local action to improve overall wellbeing.
The Commission was led by Southwark Council, with support from local organisations PRD, We Made That, and PMV planning. It was chaired by Dr Miatta Fahnbulleh, Chief Executive of the New Economics Foundation.
Co-chair of the T7 Task Force
Think7 (T7) is the official engagement group of the Group of Seven (G7) that brings together leading think tanks and research centers worldwide. The aim is to provide evidence-based advice and policy recommendations to the G7 Presidency. The Task Force provided innovative research-based policy recommendations to support the German G7 presidency, held 26–28 June 2022, in Elmau, Germany.
Henrietta and the IGP co-chaired the T7 Task Force on ‘social cohesion, economic transformation and open societies', providing policy recommendations to support systemic transformations on social cohesion.
Read the policy briefings here.
Henrietta’s evidence to the Environmental Audit Committee.
In 2022, Henrietta gave evidence to the The Environmental Audit Committee's (EAC) inquiry in the House of Commons, on 'Aligning the UK's economic goals with environmental sustainability.
Henrietta was appointed to the Expert Advisory Panel for The Dasgupta Review
The Dasgupta Review is an independent, global review on the Economics of Biodiversity led by Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta (Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus, University of Cambridge). The Review was commissioned in 2019 by HM Treasury and has been supported by an Advisory Panel drawn from public policy, science, economics, finance and business.
The Review calls for changes in how we think, act and measure economic success to protect and enhance our prosperity and the natural world. Grounded in a deep understanding of ecosystem processes and how they are affected by economic activity, the new framework presented by the Review sets out how we should account for Nature in economics and decision-making.
Read the Full Report here.
