Pamela leads public service reform for Catch22, a social business working in more human and locally accountable ways to support people from cradle to career, and unlocking capacity across all sectors.
A senior civil servant for a decade, Pamela supported the education reform programme of Rt Hon Michael Gove MP 2011-2014, joining him again as Director of Strategy at the Ministry of Justice to help design a more devolved, and accountable prison and probation system. As well as influencing a range of public policy reforms, Pamela has a record of supporting social entrepreneurs and ‘disrupters’ to challenge and improve the status quo, from Code4000, the first coding project in UK prison, to Beyond Bars, the first prisoner debating tournament. Pamela sits on the Board of the Catch22 Multi Academies Trust of Alternative Provision schools.
She also formalised Catch22’s incubation programme, and sits on the Board of successful ‘incubee’ ‘London Village Network’. Pamela is an adviser to the Weidenfeld Hoffman Trust’s scholarship and leadership programme at Oxford University, and Switchback, an East London rehabilitation programme. She a is a frequent judge for schools project Debating Matters, and panel speaker at the annual Battle of Ideas. Pamela founded ‘De Beauvoir Debates’, a quarterly event series in North London.