Cat Smith is a workforce specialist with over 20 years’ experience in leading and conducting evidence-based research, analysis, and evaluation in the public sector in support of both strategic workforce policy and operationally.
Most recently she worked for the Department of Health and Social Care leading on the evidence base to support nursing and apprenticeship expansion. Cat has also worked across Defence, including workforce modelling for the Royal Navy, leading the development and delivery of the suite of Armed Forces personnel attitudinal surveys, as well as providing stakeholder and technical oversight to an innovative people research programme delivered jointly by industry and academia. Cat is a Chartered Psychologist and Fellow of the Operational Research Society.
