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## Segment 7 — governance

## Article 85 — a085

# Kate Coombs

**Profile.** Kate Coombs is a behavioral scientist at **Imperial College London**.

**Role in the source.** Co-cited authority on framing dissent.

**Attributed contribution to this vault.** She co-authored, with [[entity-celia-moore|Celia Moore]], the advice on framing questions to invite dissent — the basis for the [[action-ask-what-could-go-wrong|'What could go wrong?' practice]] that signals dissent is actively desired, not merely tolerated.