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Paul Lodge, Chief Data Officer for the Department for Work and Pensions in the UK joins us to chat about what it takes to keep a country running with data

In this week's episode of the Business of Data podcast, host Catherine King talks with Paul Lodge, Chief Data Officer for the Department for Work and Pensions. Together they discuss how data made an impact on some of the UK's biggest events in the last 10 years, including the Grenfell Tower tragedy, Brexit, and the covid-19 pandemic.

In the discussion this week:

• Connecting the dots between business and data
• Surveys and official statistics
• Moving quickly and effectively through times of stress and change
• Data security, privacy, and fraud