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I have written or contributed to more than forty reports, essays, and op-eds setting out how progress and technology can benefit societies and improve institutions.
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¶ highlight; † external byline2026
- ¶ Digital embassies and AI sovereignty: Building resilient states beyond borders
- What does the UK public think about digital ID?
- Delivering AI impact: A leadership agenda for turning technology into public value
- Generation Ready: Scaling safe, high-quality AI in England’s schools
- ¶ Sovereignty in the age of AI: Strategic choices, structural dependencies and the long game ahead
- ¶ Public service reform in the age of AI
- † Defining Digital ID: Ideating a people centred and tech positive approach to digital ID in the UK
- ¶ † Governments are struggling. Can AI help?
2025
- The US AI opportunity: Global leadership starts at home
- † This is how we win public support for digital ID
- ¶ Time for digital ID: A new consensus for a state that works
- ¶ † We need to deliver Ofsted in real time – here’s how
- Generation Ready: Building the foundations for AI-proficient education in England’s schools
- ¶ A new international approach to beating serious and organised crime
- ¶ † Hate giving personal details to strangers? That’s why we need digital ID
- † AI is the greatest tool councils have at their disposal
- ¶ Reimagining the Spending Review: A new model for smarter public spending
- † To survive the funding crisis, UK universities must embrace AI
- Data Decoded: UK higher education, immigration and financial sustainability
- Governing in the age of AI: Reimagining local government
- Governing in the age of AI: Unlocking a new era of transformation in Africa
- ¶ Governing in the age of AI: Building Britain’s National Data Library
- ¶ † Here’s a pitch for what the National Data Library should actually be
- Making Smart Data happen
2024
- ¶ Tackling the behaviour challenge in England’s schools
- A new approach to serious and organised crime in the UK
- ¶ Governing in the age of AI: Reimagining the UK Department for Work and Pensions
- The economic case for AI-enabled education
- ¶ Governing in the age of AI: A new model to transform the state
2023
- ¶ The future of learning: Delivering tech-enabled quality education for Britain
- A new national purpose: AI promises a world-leading future of Britain
- Holding the school-inspection system to account
- † State of resilience: What lessons can we learn from Ukraine’s digital government and its war response?
2022
- Freedom jobs: How workers perceive platform work and what governments should do about it
- ¶ What are proactive public services and why do we need them?
- Ending the big squeeze on skills: How to futureproof education in England
- ¶ Time for a World Education Service: Focused, free and for all
2021
- ¶ † A universal digital learner ID would help universities better understand their students
- ¶ Tech-inclusive education: A world-class system for every child
- Supporting entrepreneurship and innovation in higher education in Greece
- Supporting entrepreneurship and innovation in higher education in Lithuania
- The impact of good practice in digital delivery on student engagement, progression and achievement
- How good practice in digital delivery and assessment has affected student engagement and success – an early exploration
2020
- The future of employer-university collaboration – a vision for 2030
- ¶ Digital at the core: A 2030 strategy framework for university leaders
- Digital learning rebooted: From 2020’s quick fixes to future transformation
- Employability rebooted: Democratising the future of work
- ¶ Assessment rebooted: From 2020’s quick fixes to future transformation
2019
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