Sam Lakha

Biography

Sam’s mission is to find ways for Volans to be part of conversations and on platforms that allow us to challenge the world of business and bring ‘constructive discomfort’ to a wide-range of audiences. As well as the gubbins of running the business and driving our varied research, outreach and agenda-setting work, Sam’s day job – which she finds hard to justify as ‘work’ – involves everything from scouting for disruptive innovators, to finding and engaging exponential change-makers, and then building bridges and partnerships between them and more traditional (“big”) business. Sam has been at the front line of building partnerships which help us shape and deliver our Breakthrough Program, such as with the UN Global Compact on Project Breakthrough and with Covestro and the Carbon Productivity Consortium on Reimagining Carbon.

Research Interest

Pharmaceutics, biotechnology, biomedical, drug delivery, Health Sciences, Sustainability