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’ve published two books - Bluffocracy and Digital Transformation At Scale - and a 2024 report called the Radical How, which makes a case for the reforms needed to deliver mission-driven government. My writing on government and public service reform has appeared in 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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