Our People
We believe our strength is our people.
We recruit people with lived experience – often whole careers - in the sectors and organisations we serve. They are passionate people, driven to make communities safer.
Our clients work with us because they trust us to deliver quality results with lasting impact.
Chief Executive,
Office of Police and Crime Commissioner
“They’re a passionate team and an organisation that borrows from a range of disciplines and experience. They celebrate their people - and for good reason. They’re credible experts, but they don’t flaunt this. They provide reasons and hear out new ideas, and they don’t overpromise.”
Meet the team
Sam Cunningham
Partner (Consulting & Insights)
As the former Director of Criminal Justice Commissioning and Policy at the Mayor’s Office of Policing and Crime (MOPAC), Sam led major transformation programmes across London’s justice services. Sam oversaw the devolution of victim and witness support budgets to London, the development of the Mayor’s strategy to tackle violence against women and girls and the creation of the London Violence Reduction Unit. This followed roles in crime reduction operations and commissioning at Westminster Borough Council. At Crest, Sam has led a major programme of work at the Crown Prosecution Service improving outcomes for victims and helped 43 police force areas to prepare for the Home Office serious violence duty Sam is Executive Director with responsibility for Crest’s consulting practice.
Gavin Lockhart-Mirams
Founder
Gavin has provided strategy advice to public safety leaders and the British Government for over twenty years. He founded Crest in 2011 following a period in No. 10 as Senior Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister. In this role he presented policy advice to the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister and other Cabinet-level Ministers about ways to modernise public services (developing both drug recovery and reducing re-offending schemes), shift power to individuals and communities (introducing legislation paving the way for Elected Police Commissioners) and increase transparency (publishing local crime data). CEO until 2017, Gavin is now Chair of Crest with responsibility for providing strategic advice to central government and for our roster of senior advisors from policing, the civil service and the wider criminal justice system.
Jon Clements
Chief Executive
Jon joined Crest more than a decade ago, following a career as broadcaster and reporter, specialising in home affairs, policing and justice. Since then, he has worked across Crest’s different practices, advising public inquiries and arms length bodies, running independent reviews including Baroness Casey’s review of disorder at Wembley during the Euro 2020 Final, and overseen research into views on stop and search, perceptions of the Prevent programme and the emerging extremism threat. Jon was appointed CEO of Crest in September 2025
Charlotte Ward
Chief Operating Officer
Charlotte is a Chartered Accountant (ACA) with over a decade of senior finance leadership experience across professional services and creative consultancies. Charlotte previously spent six years at adam&eveDDB, progressing to Finance Director at a £100m international agency. Charlotte has extensive experience working with project-based revenue models, supporting leadership teams on pricing, resourcing, profitability, and risk where financial performance is closely linked to delivery. Known for building finance functions that enable rather than constrain, Charlotte designs fit-for-purpose reporting, embeds strong financial governance, and establishes clear, trusted financial insight to support confident decision-making.
Charlotte Phillips
Partner (Communication)
Charlotte was previously Head of News at the Independent Police Complaints Commission, where she led the communications response to the police shooting of Mark Duggan, the death of Ian Tomlinson during the G20 disorder and the investigation into allegations of a police cover-up over the Hillsborough disaster. Before that, Charlotte was Press Secretary to the Attorney General and a communications officer at the Metropolitan Police. At Crest, Charlotte has provided communications support to a number of statutory and non-statutory inquiries, including the Manchester Arena Inquiry, and the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, and to technology clients working in policing and justice. Charlotte is Executive Director with responsibility for Crest’s people and culture.
Neil Basu QPM
Senior Advisor (Policing)
Neil Basu QPM is a former senior British police officer, who was the Senior National Coordinator for Counter Terrorism, the Assistant Commissioner at Scotland Yard with responsibility for Royal and Diplomatic Protection and led the policing contribution to the UK Government’s CONTEST Strategy. Most recently, Neil led the national strategic command course which prepares police officers and staff for promotion to chief officer ranks in the service across the UK.
Ian Dyson QPM, DL
Senior Advisor
Ian Dyson QPM, DL is one of the UK's leading experts on financial crime. He is a former senior British police officer and was the Commissioner of the City of London police and the National Police Lead for Fraud, Economic Crime, Cyber Crime, Financial Investigation and Business Crime. He also led the national roll out for the 101 non-emergency number. Ian is a Distinguished Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute. He was awarded the Queen’s Police Medal in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours 2016 and became a Deputy Lieutenant for Greater London in 2022.
Dan Hawkins
Senior Advisor
Dan Hawkins works at the intersection of emerging technology and public safety. He has extensive experience investigating deepfakes, misinformation, online trust & safety, malicious applications of AI, as well as horizon scanning for a wide variety of technologies, harms, and threats. He has covered domains as varied as adult entertainment, the justice system, online platforms, defence, terrorism, utilities, and health & social care. This work informs policy, operations, and technical innovation for government departments, regulators, law enforcement, and the private sector. Dan is the founder of Cardinal Insights, a research, foresight, and advisory company. With over 25 years’ experience, Dan’s career started at tech industry analysts Datamonitor, Omdia, and GlobalData, where he worked his way up to become Managing Director.
Sunder Katwala
Senior Advisor (Engagement)
Sunder Katwala is Director of British Future, an independent and non-partisan think tank, which works on identity and immigration, integration, and race relations, focusing on engaging the public constructively in issues which can be polarising and divisive. Sunder was previously an Observer journalist and General Secretary of the Fabian Society. He is a member of the Commission for Countering Extremism's advisory group and a regular commentator in national media and broadcast. Sunder supports Crest on engagement, diversity and inclusion.
Katrina McKeever
Senior Advisor (Communication)
Katrina is a communications professional skilled at creative campaign delivery, managing international news events, and reputation management. Having previously worked as a journalist, a senior media advisor to Kensington Palace, with the Metropolitan Police Service, and the Manchester Arena Inquiry she is experienced at working with multiple stakeholders across government, charities, and public bodies to provide media advice and deliver projects with global reach.
Adrian Searle
Senior Advisor
Adrian has extensive experience across the economic crime, cyber security and broader security landscape. He was formerly Director of the National Economic Crime Centre (NECC) and the UK Financial Intelligence Unit (UKFIU), responsible for leading the UK’s operational response to fraud and wider economic crime. During Adrian’s time at the helm of the NECC, he launched a new world leading data fusion initiative with seven UK banks; worked with the UK tech sector against industrial scam centres operated in South East Asia; the NCA’s largest ever operation against global illicit finance, and coordinated UK wide Police action against high street fronts for money laundering.
Mary Calam
Senior Advisor (Public Safety)
Mary Calam is one of the UK's leading experts on governance and strategy across policing and public safety. Mary was Director General for Crime, Policing and Fire in the Home Office, responsible for all policy, legislation, strategy and funding for policing, crime and the fire service, between 2013 and 2016. Previous civil service roles included Director of National Security at the Home Office, Deputy Director of Knowledge at the Serious Organised Crime Agency and Regional Director for the Independent Police Complaints Commission. On leaving government, Mary joined McKinsey & Company, where she was part of the UK public sector practice leadership team and served law enforcement and other government clients around the world. Mary is a Non Executive Director of the National Crime Agency and a trustee of the Police Foundation. Mary supports Crest on government contracts in policing, violence reduction and public safety.
Tony Fuller
Senior Advisor (Policing)
Tony Fuller has unique experience of delivering major change programmes in policing, both as a serving senior officer and a consultant managing transformation for clients. As police lead for the PURSUE strand of the government's CONTEST strategy, Tony led the development of the police counter terrorism infrastructure following the 2005 London bombings. He had previously led investigations into serious and organised crime and police corruption during a 30 year career at the Metropolitan Police Service. After leaving, Tony joined PwC's public sector practice as a director, overseeing operations and major change programmes. Tony is currently the Vice Chair of the Road Safety Trust which is the UK’s biggest independent grant provider for research into road safety. Tony supports Crest on major policing transformation and strategy programmes.
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Giles Herdale
Senior Advisor
Giles Herdale is an expert on the impact of technology on crime and policing. He has extensive experience of leading projects and programmes at national and international level focused on research and development, strategic analysis, business transformation and new capability development. Giles has worked for government, law enforcement agencies, academia, thinktanks and NGOs, on issues such as the impact of emerging technologies on investigative powers, the development of strategies to address technology-enabled violence against women and girls, deepfake detection and the use of artificial intelligence in law enforcement. He has particular expertise in convening and marshalling diverse stakeholders around emerging threats, with examples including the development of the first independent ethics panel for digital policing in the UK, a cross- European intelligence oversight community, and a joint industry working group on addressing violence against women and girls. Giles is a member of the expert Home Office advisory committee the Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group, an Associate Fellow at RUSI, a member of the steering committee for Validate AI, and an advisor to the new Centre for Protecting Women Online.
Dame Sara Khan DBE
Senior Advisor
Dame Sara Khan DBE is a leading expert and policy specialist on counter-extremism, social cohesion and societal resilience. She was appointed Britain’s first Counter-Extremism Commissioner in 2018, tasked with leading the newly created Commission for Countering Extremism. She carried out a strategic assessment of extremism in England and Wales which culminated in a number of published independent government reports including Challenging Hateful Extremism (2019) and Operating with Impunity (2021). In 2021, Sara was appointed by the Prime Minister as the Government’s Independent Adviser for Social Cohesion and Resilience and in 2024 published The Khan Review: Threats to Social Cohesion and Democratic Resilience. Sara also has extensive NGO experience having co-founded and led Inspire, an independent counter-extremism and gender equality organisation for ten years. She is also author of The Battle for British Islam: Reclaiming Muslim identity from Extremism (2016).
John Poyton OBE
Senior Advisor
John Poyton OBE is an experienced Social Entrepreneur and Charity Chief Executive with a passion for scaling innovation and social impact. He founded Redthread's work and the UK’s first Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programme, embedding youth workers into A&E to support victims of violence, subsequently supporting and advising on the national rollout of the model. John also co-founded the Well Centre model, a Primary Care Clinical Service and Charity focused on preventing and reducing Adolescent Health Inequality. A Thought Leader with a strong cross sector track record in advising Government Departments, Anchor Institutions and the Voluntary Sector, ensuring social problems are tackled both by bottom up, scaling interventions, as well as top down, system change. As an advisor, mentor, coach and public speaker, John is passionate about creating and supporting integrated approaches to scale solutions. In recognition of his work with victims of violence John was awarded an OBE in the 2019 Queen’s New Year’s Honours.
Baroness Louise Casey DBE CB
Senior Advisor
Baroness Louise Casey DBE CB has advised five prime ministers on social welfare and criminal justice, and led the UK’s most high profile independent reviews and inspections. A former senior civil servant, Baroness Casey most recently led an independent review into the standards and culture of the Metropolitan Police, and conducted an independent review of disorder during the Euro 2020 final at Wembley. During her time in government, Baroness Casey reviewed community cohesion and integration, conducted an independent inspection into Rotherham Council and its handling of child sexual exploitation, and led the Troubled Families Programme. Before that, Baroness Casey was the first Victims Commissioner and held leadership positions at the national Anti Social Behaviour Unit, the Respect Task Force and the Rough Sleeper’s Unit. Baroness Casey, now a Crossbench peer, left the civil service in 2017 to establish the Institute for Global Homelessness before returning to support the government's Covid-19 rough sleeping response.
Savas Hadjipavlou
Senior Advisor (Analytics)
Savas Hadjipavlou spent more than 30 years in government combining data with policy at the Ministry of Defence, the Home Office and the Department of Health. He finished his civil service career at the Ministry of Justice, leading reforms in the provision of prison health and mental health services. After leaving government, Savas led the creation of the Probation Institute as an independent centre of excellence for practioners. He subsequently founded ‘Justice Episteme’, which provides analytical services and computer simulations to support policy and service reforms in criminal justice. With Crest, Savas developed the Poliscope methodology for analysing demand and performance within policing. Sunder supports Crest on data science in justice and policing.
Sabah Kaiser
Senior Advisor (Engagement)
Sabah Kaiser is an expert in safeguarding women and children from violence and supporting ethnic minorities to overcome barriers to accessing public services. Sabah has been a Senior Consultant for two national inquiries: as an Ethnic Minority Ambassador for the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, travelling around England and Wales to advise on engagement with survivors of child sexual abuse, and to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, helping to establish an authentic voice representing the five protected characteristics most impacted by the pandemic in consultations for the Inquiry’s terms of reference. Sabah is a leading voice in the barriers that language can cause, speaking eight languages and acting as an interpreter across medical, judicial and social care environments. Sabah has served as a language and culture consultant for the Ministry of Justice for more than ten years and Vandu Language Services, an ethnic minority-led community organisation working to empower the people that it serves. Through this work, Sabah ensures women and children can navigate the justice, health and social care systems. She holds multiple safeguarding qualifications accredited by Rape Crisis England and Wales, OFQUAL and Brighton and Hove Council, focusing on the protection of women, children and those from ethnic minorities and LGBT+ groups who have experienced sexual abuse, violence, honour-based violence, forced marriage, female mutilation and exploitation. Sabah is also a Luther King Advisory Fellow and visiting professor at Regent’s Park College, Oxford. Sabah supports Crest on safeguarding, victim and survivor engagement, inquiries and violence against women and girls.
Maria Lovegrove
Senior Advisor
Maria Lovegrove is a former senior police officer and was the National Police Lead for the delivery of Prevent. With over 20 years of experience in Countering Terrorism, Maria has led major national transformation programmes in Policing and across the National Security landscape. She led the delivery of recommendations arising from independent inquiries and reviews including Fishmongers Hall, Forbury Gardens and Southport. In her role as the national CT Police lead for Prevent/Offender management and Prisons, Maria championed the early intervention approach and led reforms in counter terrorism to create better outcomes for individuals that are vulnerable to being drawn into terrorism. Outside of her consultancy and advisory work, Maria volunteers with Allsorts Youth Project, a charity that listens to, connects and supports LGBTQIA+ children and young people.
Miriam Rich
Senior Advisor (Communication)
Miriam specialises in communications around policing and social welfare issues such as institutional racism and child protection. Before Crest, Miriam worked for the Metropolitan Police Service and the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, now advising inquiries and educational bodies. Miriam has managed the media on a number of high profile inquiries, including during the 1999 Paddington Rail Disaster, 2005 London bombings and 2007 disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Miriam has worked with Crest on managing media for public inquiry opening statements for the the Grenfell Tower Inquiry and the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.
Anna Bennett
Senior Communications Manager
Before joining us on our intern programme, Anna worked at the African Child Trust, managing its communications and marketing. At Crest, Anna has managed the press office for statutory and non-statutory public inquiries across England and Northern Ireland and has facilitated the media on the publication of multiple inquiry reports. Anna also leads the publication and media for Crest reports and other publications.
Teresa Hulme
Senior Analyst
Teresa joined Crest from Advance Charity, which helps women who have experienced domestic abuse and the criminal justice system rebuild their lives, where she worked as a community keyworker. Before Advance, Teresa completed the Police Now graduate scheme, and was a police constable and a trainee detective constable for the Metropolitan Police Service. Teresa holds an MA in Terrorism, Security and Society and King's College London. Throughout her MA Teresa specialised in radicalisation, and her MA thesis focused on the link between education and radicalisation.
Yasmin Jansepar
Senior Communications Officer
Yasmin interned at the Onward Think Tank before joining the Civil Service as a Communications Officer at Ofgem. She later moved into the public inquiry sector, leading Communications and Parliamentary Policy for the Lampard Inquiry, with responsibility for digital content, press activity, parliamentary engagement, and policy writing. Alongside this, she worked on the Southport Inquiry, providing website and media support. Yasmin now supports Crest’s inquiry communications, content creation, and external affairs engagement with Crest Insights and Consultancy.
John Milik
Senior Communications Analyst
John joined Crest as an intern after completing an MA in European Politics from University College London and working in education, spending time as a teaching assistant and co-founding a tuition business for school-age students. At Crest, John leads media and stakeholder analysis for statutory and non-statuory inquiries, including the Grenfell Tower, Manchester Arena, and Lampard Inquiries. He has played a key role in press office operations, managing media lock-ins and supporting with commemorative hearings. Additionally, John has supported various consultancy projects, including audience segmentation and stakeholder engagement for nationwide initiatives such as the Covid-19 Inquiry and the Home Office's Serious Violence Duty.
Alex Ranson
Senior Analyst
Alex has experience in both micro and macro quantitative analysis, having completed an MSc in Finance and Economics at the University of Southampton. During a placement year at University, Alex was an Analyst Intern for Warner Brothers where he developed a daily Covid-19 case tracker to monitor global Covid-19 trends to facilitate the international company response.
Omar Sayeed
Senior Management Accountant
Omar is a Chartered Certified Accountant (ACCA) with over 8 years’ experience across public practice and industry. Omar has worked within public practice, training, and working across small, medium, and large accountancy firms, including roles at GC Accountants, Haines Watts, and EY, where he progressed to Audit Senior. He supported large private clients, SMEs, and charities, gaining experience in public practice, tax, VAT, audit, and regulatory compliance. Omar then moved into industry, spending 4.5 years in commercial finance roles, most recently as Senior Finance Analyst at WPP Media. At Crest, Omar brings a detail-focused, high-quality approach, with an emphasis on rigour, consistency, and continuous improvement in internal finance processes.
Alex Stacey
Senior Quantitative Analyst
Before Crest, Alex was a management trainee at Southend City Council as part of the Local Government Association graduate scheme. He worked across four departments including community safety, where he co-wrote the Council’s Strategic Intelligence Assessment investigating trends in crime and community safety. At Crest, Alex has supported the delivery of the PoliSCOPE methodology to five UK police forces, helping them better understand and manage their demand. Alex is also involved in evaluating the Tackling Organised Exploitation (TOEX) programme and has led quantitative analysis for HMICFRS on misconduct within fire and rescue services in England and Wales. Additionally, Alex has facilitated workshops that offer tailored support to local partnerships, helping them develop strategic needs assessments and evaluation capabilities in line with the Serious Violence Duty.
Marie Begasse
Business Manager
Marie provides general and strategic business management support to the Crest team and Directors, ensuring our accounting, human resources, procurement and IT operations function effectively. Before joining Crest, Marie was personal assistant to directors at a major UK packaging manufacturer.
Jess Hull
Senior Strategy & Insight Manager
After completing an MSc in Gender from the London School of Economics and working with the menstrual health charity Irise International as a Communications Officer, Jess now manages Crest's policy and governance work. Jess has drafted instructions for new legislation on public inquiries and developed statutory guidance for the Children and Young People (Jersey) Law 2022, each for the Government of Jersey. Jess co-authored published research on county lines and maternal imprisonment and led the qualitative research for a report into domestic abuse perpetrators for the Home Office.
Alyssa Knisley
Senior Analyst
Before joining Crest, Alyssa completed a PhD in Criminology and an MPhil in Criminological Research at the University of Cambridge. As part of her PhD Alyssa designed and conducted an in-depth qualitative research project with 51 children and young people in alternative education provision across four regions of England about their experiences carrying weapons. She has also conducted comparative research on prisons and the rehabilitative ideal in the US and Norway and worked on a project on data-driven librarianship in prison libraries across the US.
Beth Mooney
Head of Policy and Strategy
Before joining Crest, Beth was a researcher at the Serious and Organised Crime Unit at Home Office, specialising in county lines, child criminal exploitation and drug trafficking. Beth had previously been a researcher for the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse after completing an MPhil in Criminological Research from the University of Cambridge. At Crest, Beth specialises in qualitative research on county lines, vulnerability and exploitation, having co-authored published research on county lines. This research included an in-depth analysis of 13 young people involved in county lines and concluded with a presentation of the findings to over 180 local partners and research area experts. Before becoming Head of Policy and Strategy, Beth led research at Crest.
Fernanda Reynoso-Serna
Senior Analyst
Fernanda joined Crest after completing an M.Phil in Public Policy at the University of Cambridge. Before this, she worked at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) where she evaluated the implementation of public policies aimed at addressing the root causes of migration in Southern Mexico and Central America. Fernanda has also worked as a protection officer in a migrant shelter in northern Mexico where she provided humanitarian aid to women, men, boys and girls. She holds a second masters in Conflict Resolution from the University of Essex.
Rebecca Smith
Compliance & Financial Administrator
Rebecca provides operational and administrative support across all teams at Crest, with a particular focus on ISO certification audits and general management. Rebecca has supported projects for clients. Prior to joining Crest, Rebecca held roles including Logistics Manager at First Defence Ltd, Operations Manager at McLean Events, PA to the Director at Toshiba Information Systems, and Team Leader at Avnet Technology Solutions.
James Stott
Head of Strategy and Insight
James originally joined Crest as an intern after completing a BA in law at Kings College London. Following several promotions, James now manages projects across violence reduction, justice policy and governance. He's worked for violence reduction units, police and crime commissioners and local authorities, specialising in quantitative analysis and advice on partnership working. James has also managed projects translating ministerial commitments into legislation for the Jersey Government and is leading an assessment of police force areas' readiness to implement the Serious Violence Duty.
Sarah Hibbert
Senior Strategy and Insight Manager
Sarah joined Crest from Black Box Research where she specialised in researching modern slavery, child criminal exploitation and county lines. Sarah holds a BA and MRes in Criminology from the University of Manchester and during her studies she contributed to a social network analysis of corporate bribery and corruption networks. At Crest, Sarah recently led the quantitative analysis of national vulnerability and violence trends for the Youth Endowment Fund Annual Review of youth vulnerability and violence.
Oli Hutt
Head of Analytics
Before joining Crest, Oli was manager of the Jill Dando Institute Research Laboratory at University College London which was set up as the first research lab in Europe to hold and analyse highly classified police and intelligence data in collaboration with academia. He was previously analytics director for a market research company before moving to Sky TV and designing and implementing an in-house capability that enabled them to test and measure the performance of their brand and communication work. At Crest, Oli manages quantitative analysis across the business, having esablished the in-house capability to design and run surveys for a range of different clients and research projects. Oli also holds a PhD in Crime Science modelling the deterrent effect of police foot patrol in micro-places.
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Rosie Margolis
Strategy & Insight Manager
Before joining Crest, Rosie was a data analyst at Advance Charity, which helps women who have experienced domestic abuse and the criminal justice system rebuild their lives. At Advance, Rosie supported service implementation, delivery, contract management and evaluation of services commissioned by the Ministry of Justice, Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime and the London Violence Reduction Unit. Rosie holds an MSc in Public Policy from UCL. In her MSc dissertation, she focused on the importance of preserving family relationships for women to desist from reoffending.
Millie Paine
Strategy & Insight Manager
Millie joined us from We Are Futures, a social impact agency focused on young people. Before that she was the Head of Sixth Form and History and Politics teacher at an academy in West London. Millie holds an MA Hons in Human, Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge and an MSc in European and Global Governance with Distinction from the University of Bristol. She was the winner of the SPAIS Prize for highest score for her MSc thesis, which was focused on attitudes towards neoliberalism in European populist party discourse.
Madeline Rolfe
Strategy & Insight Manager
Maddie originally joined Crest as an intern after completing an LLB in English Law with American Law from King's College London. At Crest, Maddie has managed projects including the Youth Endowment Fund Annual Review on Youth Vulnerability and Violence and an evaluation of victims' experiences of the criminal justice system as part of the criminal justice joint inspection led by His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services.
Ehsan Solaimani
Lead Quantitative Analyst
Ehsan Solaimani is the Lead Quantitative Analyst at Crest Advisory, where he leads quantitative analysis across crime, justice, and social policy projects. He specialises in advanced statistical modelling, impact and process evaluation, and translating complex data into clear, policy-relevant insights for decision-makers. Before joining Crest, Ehsan held academic and research posts at the University of York, the University of Fribourg, and the University of Essex, where he led quantitative training, supported large-scale research projects, and worked extensively with complex behavioural and administrative datasets. He brings over five years’ experience delivering advanced statistical analysis and high-impact data science to inform evidence-based decision-making. Ehsan holds a PhD with a strong quantitative focus and has published widely in peer-reviewed journals. Alongside his policy work, he has extensive experience training researchers and professionals in applied data analysis, reproducible research, and evidence-based decision-making.
Dr Sophie Wilkinson
Senior Analyst
Sophie completed her PhD in Criminology from the University of Southampton, where she focused on the factors driving modern slavery offences and prevention measures. Before joining Crest, she worked as a Research Assistant on a project supporting British victims of modern slavery. At Crest, Sophie has co-authored the College of Policing and NPCC National Policing Statement on Violence Against Women and Girls for 2024 and supported the development of the VAWG 4P Delivery Framework for 2024-2027. She has also co-authored the published Hadley Devolution Report and contributed to the MOPAC Domestic Abuse victims’ needs assessment. Sophie is the author of a chapter in the upcoming Palgrave Handbook of Modern Slavery.