Kris Murrin is a global leader in the fields of innovation and social change. She has worked across the public, private, and voluntary sectors to address problems as wide ranging as education reform, maternal mortality, and economic growth.
She started her career in the corporate world with P&G then went on to help build the world’s largest independent innovation consultancy – What If. She was then head hunted to transfer her innovation skills to the public sector, working in the UK Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit under Tony Blair and as Director for Policy and Implementation at No10 under Prime Minister David Cameron. She has been a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Government in London and a Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University. She led the UK Government’s review into innovation in Defence and Security in 2017. In 2018 she was asked to establish a new National Leadership Centre by the Chancellor and worked as its founding CEO before leaving to become CEO of the Royal Anniversary Trust. She is currently CEO of the King’s Foundation.
Kris is the author of four books and has presented major TV series for both the BBC and Channel 4.