Owain Service

CEO at CogCo. Honorary Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School.

United Kingdom

About

Experience

  • Member Board of Trustees at upReach
    Oct 2019 - Present · 6 yrs 9 mos

  • Chief Executive Officer at CogCo
    Mar 2019 - Present · 7 yrs 4 mos

    CogCo combines behavioural science, design and data science to develop and test ideas that work.

  • Managing Director and Co-Founder at Behavioural Insights Team
    Feb 2014 - Dec 2018 · 4 yrs 11 mos

    The Behavioural Insights Team started life inside No.10 Downing Street as the world’s first government institution dedicated to the application of behavioural sciences. We are now a consulting firm whose mission is to help organisations in the UK and overseas to apply behavioural insights in support of social purpose goals. The company itself has three owners: the employees, the UK government, and Nesta (the UK's leading innovation charity).

  • Cabinet Office (6 yrs 2 mos)
    • Deputy Director, Behavioural Insights Team
      Nov 2010 - Feb 2014 · 3 yrs 4 mos

    • Deputy Director, Prime Minister's Strategy Unit (Foreign Policy)
      2008 - Oct 2010 · 2 yrs 10 mos