Simon's current commitments:
- Member of Advisory Group of Better Statistics, since 2021
- 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
- Member of the Advisory Group of Sex Matters, from 2022, with the "mission to reestablish that sex matters in rules, laws, policies, language and culture"
- Trustee of the Goat Walk Land Trust, since 2024
Previous work:
- Founding director at The Data Analysis Bureau renamed Octaipipe in 2023, delivering "Secure & resilient federated edge AI for critical IoT". Received £3.5m funding in late 2023. (2017 - 2023)
- 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:
