Faisal Naru has been working for over 25 years globally in public bodies, the private sector and international organisations. He is founder of Think Test Do working with leaders, executives and their teams to address their challenges and deliver innovative programmes and solutions for their organisations. This includes capacity building, strategy, policy and organisational change – using a human-centred approach. Faisal was the inaugural Executive Director of the Policy Innovation Centre at the Nigerian Economic Summit Group with Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, where he set up Africa’s first national level “behavioural unit” in Abuja, Nigeria. Prior to setting up the PIC, Faisal was at the OECD for almost a decade. There, he notably founded the work at the OECD on Behavioural Insights and is responsible for a number of OECD publications, guidelines, and establishing communities of practice internationally including on Behavioural Public Policy, and also the Network of Economic Regulators and the ASEAN-OECD Good Regulatory Practices Network. At the OECD, Faisal also set up an internal behavioural capacity in the Executive Director’s Office that applied behavioural science into management and organisational change.

Faisal has lived and worked internationally across Europe, Asia, Middle East, Africa and North and South America. He serves on a number of international committees, advisory boards and is a speaker at various behavioural science Masters and Education Programmes. He advises a number of governments and public bodies on strategy and reform. He is a former member of the UK Government’s Cabinet Office, Head of Practice and Leadership Board Member for the global development consultancy - DAI. Faisal graduated from the University of Oxford.