Fiona James: Leveraging Integrated Data Assets to Future Proof the Public Sector

Fiona James, Chief Data Officer and Director of Data Growth and Operations at the UK’s Office for National Statistics, provides insight into unlocking the power of data sharing and simplifying access to data at the organizational level

In this week’s episode of the Business of Data podcast, we talk to Fiona James, Chief Data Officer and Director of Data Growth and Operations at the UK’s Office for National Statistics, about her journey into data and how she’s deepening trust and engagement with data at the ONS.

In the discussion this week: 

• Building underlying data infrastructure to set up access to data in advance of need
• Utilizing a multi cloud platform to access data in a more consistent way
• An exploration of the ONS’s Reference Data Management framework