Nicola Steuer

Nicola joined nef in June 2006. In her role as Programme Director she is responsible for supporting and co-ordinating the different programmes of work at nef to help bring about a Great Transition to a new economy. nef’s programme work ranges from the local to the global, involves both thinking and doing (including piloting new economics initiatives with communities in the UK and internationally), and covers issues such as alternatives to GDP as a measure of progress, research into the distribution and redistribution of income time and carbon between social groups, new thinking and practice on a low carbon and high well-being local economic development, reform of the monetary and banking sector, and work on prevention and transformation within public services.

Prior to taking up her current role, Nicola spent just under four years working as Head of nef’s Centre for Well-being. In this role she led a partnership project with Action for Children on why governments should shift towards a more preventative approach to investing in children and young people’s well-being, and how this might be financed. She has also recently completed work with the IDeA (Improvement and Development Agency) and NMHDU (National Mental Health Development Unit) exploring local government’s role in measuring and promoting population well-being.

Before joining nef, Nicola was Deputy Director of the Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) where she led the charity’s research and consultancy activities in the fields of regeneration, sustainable economic development and local governance.