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Sangita Myska meets Baljeet Sandhu MBE, who believes ‘knowledge equity’ can make policy-making more progressive.

Baljeet was working as a high-profile human rights lawyer when she saw a fundamental flaw in the leadership of most elite organisations – those in charge often have no experience of the problems they’re trying to solve and so are slow to find effective solutions.

She went on to become the pioneer of the Lived Experience Movement in the UK, and founder and CEO of the Centre for Knowledge Equity – an idea she believes can dismantle inequality at its roots by bringing together people with lived, learned and practice experience to solve the challenges of our time.

Is redefining expertise and placing a true value on the lived experience a good way to think out of the box about the complex problems we face? Are we stifling human ingenuity by limiting decision-making powers to so few?

Contributors include:

Tracey Herrington, manager of Thrive Teeside, a community-led anti-poverty charity that campaigns to put lived experience at the heart of policy-making.

Lord David Willetts, president of the Resolution Foundation and former Minister for Universities and Science.

Michele Wucker, strategist and author of The Gray Rhino and You Are What You Risk: The New Art and Science of Navigating an Uncertain World.

Producer: Eve Streeter
A Whistledown production for 91Èȱ¬ Radio 4

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