Lis Cowey, Principal Advisor, Strategy, Change and Performance, The Treasury and Sally Washington, Programme Manager, The Policy Project, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet were joint fellows in 2015.

Lis and Sally looked at public sector innovation leadership across the policy and implementation spectrum.

Their fellowship began with a course on 'Design Thinking for Innovative Business Problem Solving' at the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, United States. They then visited a range of innovation and policy units and organisations in New York and London, as well as the Observatory of Public Sector Innovation, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, in Paris.

Read their full reports below

Fellowship report by Lis Cowey [PDF, 713 KB]
Fellowship report by Sally Washington [PDF, 2 MB]