Sam joined the Institute as Senior Associate for Place-Based Impact Investing in June 2025. He is focussed on cultivating the policy environment needed to unlock the transformative potential of impact capital, and mobilising the growing ecosystem of impact investors, intermediaries and place leaders seeking to attract patient, purpose-driven investment.
With a career spanning local government, the UK Civil Service and the technology sector, Sam is a champion of innovation-led prosperity and a catalyst for place innovation, smarter spending and collaborative leadership in the UK and beyond.
As Director of Place Leadership at Connected Places Catapult, Sam shaped and delivered a £4.5 million program of capability building that included advocacy for place-based impact investment by UK regional authorities, and founded the Innovation Procurement Empowerment Centre (IPEC) to maximise the impact of everyday public spending. As a senior advisor in the Cabinet Office Implementation Unit he advised the UK Prime Minister on delivery of major policy programmes, including the £5.3 billion Better Care Fund. Sam started his career in local government, where he authored the Barnet Graph of Doom, an infamous report that forecast the current financial crisis facing local services.
Outside of work, Sam is a husband, a father to two daughters, an incorrigible drummer, and a novice archer.
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