Paul Lodge: Using Data to Keep a Country Running

Paul Lodge, Chief Data Officer for the Department for Work and
Pensions in the UK joins us to chat about what it takes to keep a
country running with data

In this week's episode of the Business of Data podcast, host
Catherine King talks with Paul Lodge, Chief Data Officer for the
Department for Work and Pensions. Together they discuss how data
made an impact on some of the UK's biggest events in the last 10
years, including the Grenfell Tower tragedy, Brexit, and the
covid-19 pandemic.


In the discussion this week:


Connecting the dots between business and data

Surveys and official statistics

Moving quickly and effectively through times of stress and
change

Data security, privacy, and fraud