Ve Dewey is a globally networked strategic designer, researcher, and advisor based in London — working at the intersection of design, governance, and leadership.
Over two decades, she has built a practice that spans industry, academia, and public life, working with and for iconic organisations including Mattel, Adobe, WPP, Nike, and Tata. She holds an MBA with distinction from Central Saint Martins.
As a polymath designer, she approaches every project by seeing connections that aren't immediately apparent, pushing diverse conversations beyond the expected.
She convenes and curates at the highest levels, from the Design for Planet seminar series at Cambridge CRASSH (in partnership with Bloomberg C40 and the Design Council) to the World Design Congress 2025 at the Barbican, where 1,200+ participants gathered around voices including Kate Raworth, Mariana Mazzucato, Brian Eno, and Norman Foster.
A Design Council Expert, Creative PEC Champion, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, she founded the RSA's Global Decolonising Design Coalition and is a named partner on the British Council's Indigenising Design global series.
Across all of it, Ve's work is animated by a single question: what kind of support will we need to design, and what will it look like, to sustain the future, inclusively and sustainably?
“Her natural state is to be thinking beyond the bleeding edge…She is someone who is always looking for where to go.”
— Gabriel Carlson, VP of Design, Spin Master (ex-Mattel)