Rosehanna Chowdhury

Rosehanna is a senior director in the Department for Levelling Up, leading the resilience function as part of the UK’s national response mechanism. As well as overseeing local resilience strategy, capability and insights, she leads multidisciplinary regional teams to support local areas in anticipating, preparing for, responding to and recovering from crises and disruptions. 

In the course of her career, Chowdhury has advised Prime Ministers, Secretaries of State, and boards on risk and resilience. She has led large-scale national and international projects delivered through multiple agencies and organisations. She has successfully led teams in national emergencies through department-wide change transformation programmes and has held senior roles in the Cabinet Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office, advising Ministers on policy development. Her portfolios have covered national-level crises and risk management, public service reform, and global communication campaigns. 

She is also an Emeritus Governor at the London School of Economics (LSE), where she co-founded and chaired the Global LSE Government and Public Policy Alumni Group. Chowdhury has an LLB and LLM from LSE and a Policy Fellowship from the University of Cambridge, where she also sits on the Fellowship assessment panel.