About me

I am the co-founder of Public Digital, a global consultancy specialising in digital transformation, state capacity and institutional reform, working with governments, companies and philanthropic institutions. I am also an unpaid expert Advisor to the Government’s Pathways to Work Innovation Fund.

I’ve published three books - Digital Sovereignty: The Power to Decide, Bluffocracy and Digital Transformation At Scale. With Tom Loosemore, I wrote a report in 2024 called the Radical How, which made a case for the reforms needed to deliver more effective government.

My writing on government and public service reform has appeared in Foreign Affairs, The Guardian, CityAM, The New World, The Spectator, Civil Service World and Nature, among others. I now write on Substack.

Before starting Public Digital, I worked as a senior civil servant in the UK. While at the Government Digital Service, I led the team that delivered the first government digital service standard and design manual, set up the Technology Leaders network and wrote the Digital Efficiency Report. Outside GDS, I ran a government review into applications of the Internet of Things, commissioned from the Government's Chief Scientific Advisor by then-PM David Cameron in 2014.

I was a non-executive member of Council at the University of Exeter between 2019 and 2025, and a member of the university’s Finance and Investment Committee.  

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