Stephen is Director for Analysis and Data at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.
A government economist by background, he has also worked in the Department of Trade and Industry (now the Department for Business and Trade); various predecessors to his current department; the Cabinet Office; and Her Majesty’s Treasury.
Amongst other things, Stephen is a founding trustee and Board member of the Centre for Homelessness Impact; a member of the Public Policy Committee of the British Academy; a fellow and Council member of the Academy of Social Sciences; a trustee of Local Trust; and an Advisory Board member at the Centre for Science and Policy at the University of Cambridge.
Stephen was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the Queen’s birthday honours list 2007.