Thea Snow

Thea completed a Bachelor of Arts and Law at Monash University, and a Master’s of Public Policy with distinction from the London School of Economics in 2019, where she received the Peter Self Prize for best dissertation.

Thea’s experiences span the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. She has worked as a commercial lawyer, a public servant, and, prior to joining CPI, at the UK’s innovation foundation, Nesta. 

With a strong theoretical and practical grounding in public policy, Thea has been recognised as a thought-leader in her field. In 2019, Thea was named as one of Apolitical’s most influential public sector innovators.

Thea is also the proud mum of three beautiful children and a fur-child called Oreo.

Some of Thea’s work includes:

• “The (il)logic of legibility – Why governments should stop simplifying complex systems”
• “Once upon a bureaucrat: exploring the role of stories in government“
• “Why evidence should be the servant, not the master, of good policy”
• “Public servants are tired of change-washing — not change”