Helen is a director of Risk Solutions’ with over 25 years’ consulting experience working in areas where there are high degrees of uncertainty, complexity or risk. Her work has included support to policy formulation, development of management systems, and all aspects of evaluation and review. She has worked at senior levels for the UK government, reporting for example directly to ministers in Defra. Helen was a member of the CECAN team who developed the new supplementary guide on handling complexity in policy evaluation for HMTs Magenta Book: Guidance on Evaluation. She has a special interest in developing system-based theories of change.