Hywel is director of Facilitating the Future, which promotes systemic and sustainable solutions to public policy and public service challenges across a range of sectors through engagement, facilitation, policy design, organisation development and support in implementation.
From 2007 until 2010 he was consecutively specialist policy adviser at DCLG and at Defra, leading on a range of sustainability policy areas including the low carbon built environment, planning, resources and waste, as well as bioenergy, land use and rural affairs.
He has also worked at the Office for Public Management inventing, piloting and implementing public policy solutions with the local government and health sectors, including new models of local authority, the establishment of Clinical Commissioning Groups, using simulations to test policy design, and delivering development programmes, such as the IDEA Leadership Academy for local councillors.
Hywel is also a co-founder of Labour: Coast & Country, a campaign for non-urban Britain. He also chaired SERA, Labour’s environment campaign, between 2004 and 2007.
Some of Hywel's recent work includes a
blog post arguing that Britain's climate change response and industrial strategy need to be integrated.
