Simon's work now:
- Director at The Data Analysis Bureau, since 2017
- Consulting and journalism commitments - helping anyone (corporates large and small, legal firms, financial services, consultancies, charities, lobby groups, media organisations and individuals) find data and then use it, visualise it and promote it, generally making better use of the assets they have.
- Occasional blogger on mainly statistical issues at Britain in numbers
And voluntary activities:
Previous work:
- Specialist Advisor to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC, previously PASC, 2012-19, part-time)
- Deputy chair of the ESRC-funded Data Infrastructure Strategic Advisory Committee (2012 - 2017, part-time)
- At the start-up Timetric, a web-based publisher of economic and business data, originally based in Clerkenwell's White Bear Yard until being bought by a global publishing group (2010-12)
- Statistics Editor at the Financial Times (1999-2010)
- Investment banking research, at HSBC, Warburg and Nikko (1987-99)
- Civil servant, in Treasury, Central Statistical Office and EU in Brussels (1981-87)
Past voluntary roles, and other bits:
- Trustee of Full Fact, the independent fact-checking organisation, for ten years to end 2021
- Elected to be a council member of the Royal Statistical Society (2017 - 2020)
- Member of the Cabinet Office's Open Data User Group, ODUG. (2013-14)
- Involved with a number of local (north London) charities notably (from 2013 to 2021, including three years as deputy chair) the Highgate Neighbourhood Forum
- The executive of Straight Statistics, which exposed the misuse of data
- Technical advisor to the OECD's 'Measuring the progress of societies' project until 2012
- Between 2006 and 2011 he was on the executive of the Statistics User Forum
- Council member of the Royal Statistical Society (1998-2003) and the Society of Business Economists (now renamed SPE)
- In the 2009 team that produced theBellagioSTAMP guiding principles used to measure and assess progress towards sustainability
- Founding member of the editorial board of 'Significance'. See the latest news here!
- Member (2012-2015) of the Heath sub-committee of the Heath and Hampstead Society and associated DamNonsense campaign which tried and failed to stop the building of dams to prevent flooding following a 1 in 400,000 year storm
Interpreting The Economy (2000)
