Ipsos appoints Nathan Bransden as Director of Strategy and Advisory, a new policy consultancy within Ipsos Public Affairs in the UK

Ipsos is pleased to announce the appointment of Nathan Bransden as Director of Strategy and Advisory, a new policy consultancy within Public Affairs in the UK.

The Strategy and Advisory team works with policymakers across the public sector to shape impactful and actionable policies based on the best available evidence and insight, bridging the gap between policy and delivery. This builds on our well established evaluation practice. 

Nathan joins Ipsos from Q5 Partners and brings his expertise from government as a former Senior Civil Servant with the Department for International Trade and the UK Health Security Agency. He has advised Ministers and Senior officials on high profile government strategies and worked with a range of public and private sector clients to help them transform their organisations.   

Commenting on the appointment, Ipsos Public Affairs’ Head of Strategy and Advisory Michael Lawrie said: 

We’re delighted to welcome Nathan to Public Affairs in this key role in the Strategy and Advisory team.  This new service is central to the future of our business.  We will benefit from Nathan’s ideas, work in government, and experience in consultancy, as we bring Ipsos’ insights, approaches and ideas to clients in a new way.

 Nathan Bransden said: 

I am delighted to be joining Ipsos to build a new policy consultancy. By applying a consultancy style approach, drawing on Ipsos’s deep policy insight and unique range of expertise, I believe we can offer a new advisory service which is really tailored to the needs of policymakers.