This is a profile from the 2022 version of the DataIQ 100.
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Tom Smith, director, spatial data unit, chief data officer, Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
What has been your path to power?
One thread running through my career is data for public good. I was lucky as an early job to join an Oxford University research group doing some of the first work with government administrative data, modelling and estimating poverty and deprivation levels, which evolved into the Index of Multiple Deprivation used to target billions of pounds of spending.
Later, I helped launch a spin-out data, analysis and tech company from the research group, and over a decade we worked with hundreds of public sector organisations across the UK and internationally. Gradually, I became more involved with government work, advising on opening-up and using data, and then applied to ONS to lead the Data Science Campus.
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