Skip to main content

Nancy Hey

A photograph of Nancy Hey, speaking at an event.

Position/Organisation

Director of Evidence and Insight / Lloyd's Register Foundation

About Nancy

Nancy is the Director Evidence and Insight, leading the Global Safety Evidence Centre at Lloyd’s Register Foundation, as well as the World Risk Poll and the Impact of the Foundation ensuring the delivery of high-impact evidence products.

She brings extensive experience in evidence-informed decision making, having previously set up and led the UK’s What Works Centre for Wellbeing for ten years as part of the evidence informed policy and practice innovations globally, as well as working across sectors as a global leader in the field of wellbeing and social progress.  Before setting up the Centre, she worked in the UK Civil Service as a policy professional for 15 years in nine departments, setting up the professional policy community and working across skills, public health, justice and constitutional reform. Nancy holds a LLB in La and a MSc in Coaching & Organisational Development.

Latest work