you will meet many people in policy work. But you rather not meet them. The main reason is that you will have to staff the meetings. You will need to coordinate work trips (including buying of air tickets, booking of hotel rooms, tracking receipts, putting up reimbursements requests) and write file notes for each and every of these meetings which may also happen over dinner/lunch. You may even be called upon to do translation work (e.g., translate chinese to english) and whatever other admin functions. Policy farmers are most happy in their own cubicles when they have the time to do the real work