Director for Analysis and Data at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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 Council member of the Academy of Social Sciences; a trustee of Local Trust; a Governor of the National Institute for Economic and Social Research; an observer to the independent commissions on Productivity and Neighbourhoods; and an Advisory Council 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.