Salma Shah

Director at Kraken Strategy Ltd

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Director at Kraken Strategy Ltd
Policy Fellow, Centre for Science and Policy

Salma Shah is the Director of Kraken Strategy Ltd. Previously, she was a Partner and Senior Adviser at Portland, the communications and public affairs company. Salma was Special Adviser to the Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, from 2018-19. She was responsible for strategy and communication across the Department. She served in the UK government from May 2014, in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG).

Prior to this Salma was a journalist at the BBC, producing the Today programme on Radio 4.

  • 11 February 2020, 5:30pm

    CSaP Annual Lecture: Professor Dame Sally Davies

    The 2020 CSaP Annual Lecture will be delivered by Professor Dame Sally Davies, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge and former Chief Medical Officer for England and Chief Medical Advisor to the UK Government.

  • 26 June 2019, 9:30am

    CSaP Annual Conference 2019

    CSaP's Annual Conference will bring together members of our network from government, academia and elsewhere to discuss some of the policy challenges we have worked on over the past year.