Partnerships and Business Development Advisor
Kavya has led partnership-building and income generation across national policy, innovation, and research organisations. She focuses on curating an ecosystem of partners that are representative of systems that require change.
Kavya is currently setting up the business development infrastructure and function at The King’s Fund, England’s leading health and social care think tank. Prior to this, she worked at the Royal Society of Arts to curate cross-sector funding, knowledge, and delivery partnerships to deliver impactful social change programmes spanning lifelong learning, transforming education systems, climate and just transitions, and wellbeing. She also led the RSA’s partnership with Newcastle University to establish the new home for the AHRC funded Policy and Evidence Centre for the Creative Industries.