As Head of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive’s (NIHE) Research and Market Intelligence Department, Karly has overall responsibility for delivering the Strategic Research programme and leads an experienced team who ensure that research and evidence is continually informing a variety of key housing policy areas.

Karly joined NIHE in 2017 from Quadrangle, a London-based research consultancy, and previously held roles in Clarabridge and PwC. Her background in Research, consulting and analytics spans over a decade working with organisations across the private, public and voluntary sectors. She is a specialist in large quantitative and data driven projects mainly helping organisations better utilise their data to understand their relative market and customer base and demonstrate their impact.

Karly represents N. Ireland on the Housing Studies Association committee and is a board member of Nexus NI.