The Policy Lab is an independent research and advisory platform that collaborates with institutions to understand and assist them in designing responses when engaging complexity, context, and communities in moments of strategic choice. Founded in 2011, the Lab works at the intersection of knowledge generation, policy design, and sociotechnical systems.

The Lab’s core premise is straightforward: durable impact does not emerge from better intentions or more data alone, but from better-designed encounters between decision-makers, stakeholder communities, and the systems they inhabit. In periods of uncertainty, technological disruption, or institutional stress, how problems are framed, and how knowledge is translated into action, are what make better decisions possible.

Current areas of focus include policy design for sociotechnical change, institutional decision-making under constraint, and the development of conceptual and practical tools to help organizations navigate practice-altering technologies.