Louise joined DSIT (formerly DCMS) as a sector specialist in 2017, initially helping to develop the 5G Testbeds & Trials Programme, before moving on to co-lead the Barrier Busting Task Force, focusing on reducing barriers to the deployment of mobile networks. Having spent time heading up DSIT’s spectrum policy team, Louise is now leading the development of the Government’s Wireless Infrastructure Strategy.

Before joining DSIT Louise spent more than twenty years in the telecoms industry, working for both fibre and wireless network providers, in a variety of legal, regulatory and policy roles.