Director and Lead Consultant

Catriona Maclay

Catriona started her career as a Citizenship teacher, and a volunteer in her local community. She has worked extensively in social entrepreneurship, making sure that those closest to social problems are the people who are empowered to tackle them. These experiences led her to set up The Hackney Pirates (now the Literacy Pirates), an award-winning community-based literacy charity. Her recent work through Sea Change Strategy has focused on innovation in the economic and political systems that define how much power citizens have.

Bio highlights

• Founding Director of The Hackney Pirates
• Associate at The Relationships Project; project lead and report author The Lookout
• Senior Advisor at the Balanced Economy Project
• Inaugural trustee at the Economist Educational Project
• Previous roles in teaching, at Ashoka UK and Challenge Works
• Fulbright Scholar and MPA at Harvard Kennedy School

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