Kathryn Berger is a Lead Data Scientist within the UK government's Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology (DSIT). She joined the civil service earlier this year, after spending over 15 years working across academia and the private sector, building and leading projects that use geospatial models to better understand disease risk and turn complex data into something people can actually use. She is passionate about harnessing geospatial data to solve the challenges of global health and food security. Kathryn believes in making machine learning tools, data, and resources more accessible for social good through open data and open science.