Stephen is currently an independent Information/Data Management and AI Consultant.

Originally from the UK, Stephen has worked in senior Information & Data Management roles across the Australia/NZ public sector for the last 20 years. His most recent role was as Chief Archivist, after moving on from his role as Chief Data Officer at the NZ Transport Agency. Stephen has undertaken similar roles in IRD, DIA, Office of the Auditor General, the Office of the Ombudsman and Transpower amongst others. His career has been forged in the Public Sector, and applied in the financial, regulatory and utilities environments.

Internationally, Stephen is known as a standards expert, having developed standards for information management for Australia and New Zealand, and internationally for ISO. As an anthropologist Stephen understands human systems, and as a technical expert he understands information systems. Using technology to connect these two systems to get the right information, to the right people at the right time, ethically is his professional goal.

As an information management thought-leader, specialising in strategy, policy and systems design, his mission is to connect people with content in innovative ways. His underlying philosophy is to always work with the end-user customer in mind, implementing design methodologies which have value delivery at their heart, to bring people together, building multi-disciplinary teams, that use their professional diversity to get great outcomes that are user-tested by design.

His most recent professional interest has been in driving information and data management strategy and digital service design, using metadata modelling and ontology development to support cloud data migrations, data governance and compliance, using AI/ML and Data Lake toolsets, with a particular focus on unstructured data.

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