Kathryn Perera


Kathryn Perera, Deputy Director, NHS Horizons; England


Deputy Director, NHS Horizons; England


Kathryn is the Deputy Director of NHS Horizons. She was a 2015/2016 US-UK Fulbright Commission Scholar and Visiting Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. A barrister by background, Kathryn later established and ran Movement for Change, an award-winning Community Organising social enterprise which developed an internationally recognised training curriculum for grass-roots activism.

Kathryn joined NHS Horizons in 2016 and leads programmes of work that include system-wide collaborations within NHS England and the wider health and care systems. Kathryn is a Fellow of the Psychology of Change programme for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and an honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts. She is a former National Committee Member of the Labour Women’s Network and an advisor to the Jo Cox Commission on Loneliness.