Morgan Nasir-Finlayson

Morgan joined Mutual Ventures in 2022. She previously spent eight years in the civil service across seven departments, where she worked across a range of policy, project management and strategy roles, including:
• Reducing reoffending for women in prison
• Support services for victims of modern slavery
• Unblocking asylum claim backlogs
• Bilateral policy on China
• Tax penalty reforms under Making Tax Digital
• Oil and gas tax reform
• Brexit

At MV, Morgan manages central and local government change programmes in family justice and children’s services. She is a strategic, collaborative, problem-solving leader, known for her ability to unite diverse stakeholders around complex challenges. She champions the combination of professionals and experts by experience in co-designing solutions to problems, to make sure that any solutions are evidence-based, practical for frontline professionals, and meet the needs of those they intend to serve.

Morgan has led DFJ Trailblazers, a Department for Education family justice programme, since 2024. The programme began with a pilot in five court areas (focusing on delivering local projects aimed at reducing delays in care proceedings, and improving outcomes for families and children going through family courts) and then expanded into a bespoke Guided Learning offer for an additional 15 court areas.

The programme has now rolled out to all court areas in England, and is exploring wider family justice system reform and functionality. Under her leadership, the programme has delivered practical and innovative tools – developed by local authorities – available to all family justice system partners, strengthened local governance arrangements, fostered improved multi-agency collaboration, and strengthened relationships across complex local systems of family justice professionals and experts by experience, including frontline social workers, local authority leaders, Cafcass, mothers and young people who have experienced care proceedings, senior members of the judiciary, and the Courts and Tribunals Service. Morgan’s work continues to influence national policy, shaping future reforms and creating a blueprint for sustainable improvement across the family justice system.

Recognising the critical, and awful, intersection of domestic abuse and family court proceedings, Morgan now leads MV’s thought leadership around domestic abuse and Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG). She is also the Company Lead for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, and set up the Company’s first ED&I Working Group in 2023.

Morgan may be the only person at MV who enthusiastically enjoys winter and big jumper seasons; she firmly believes there’s no such thing as bad weather – only bad clothing. Outside of work, she spends a lot of time on the allotment with her wife, is a proud Sunday League goalkeeper (and Arsenal Women’s fan), and is also an enthusiastic – but unqualified – furniture upcycler, with grand ambitions to build at least one piece of furniture in the future.