Speaker bio

Joe’s current role at the Cabinet Office involves working with government departments to identify and assess spend areas at risk of non-compliance, and lead on cross-government fraud pilots to find, acquire and analyse data that quantifies and qualifies the nature of fraud. Joe is also the policy lead for the fraud powers in the Digital Economy Act 2017, providing expert advice to public authorities, a cross-government review board and the Minister for the Cabinet Office on how data sharing can be used to combat fraud.

Before the Cabinet Office, Joe worked for 3 years as a social researcher for NHS England, running surveys and focus groups in order to measure and inform healthcare policy. He graduated from the University of Sheffield in 2014 with a 1:1 in History, specialising in crime and punishment. Joe wrote his dissertation on smuggling in the 18th Century, and have always been fascinated in what organised crime can reveal about wider socio-economic forces.