Floriane Fidegnon

Head of Industry, Technology & Innovation

Floriane joined the Industry, Technology and Innovation team at Policy Connect in January 2021 and left in May 2022. She was responsible for the strategic management of the ITI team’s work across the Manufacturing Commission, the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Manufacturing (APMG), All-Party Parliamentary Design and Innovation Group (APDIG) and All-Party Parliamentary Data Analytics Group (APGDA).

She is also a member of the UK Manufacturing Symbiosis network plus advisory board, Transforming Foundation Industries network plus advisory board and the Make UK equalities working group. 

Floriane has a BEng in Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering from the University of Warwick. She then worked for GSK within their respiratory supply chain as an industrial placement engineer.

Floriane is also a Charity Trustee for Stemette Futures and Chairperson of the Stemette Futures Youth Board. Her past experiences include founding and directing the Warwick Women’s Engineering Society, a Royal Academy of Engineering Future Leaders Scholar, a Stemettes alumna and as a freelance policy consultant and science communicator. Floriane has worked with various organisations promoting Diversity & Inclusion across the STEM sector. In 2020  she was presented with the Equal Engineers 2020 Student of the Year award.

In her spare time she enjoys cooking and reading as well as practising her German and French.

Floriane.Fidegnon [at] policyconnect.org.uk