Gavin Freeguard is a freelance consultant working on research, policy and advocacy around data, digital government and data visualization. As a policy associate at Connected by Data, he helps coordinate civil society activity around the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill and future policy thinking. He is also an associate at the Institute for Government (where he was previously programme director), special adviser at the Open Data Institute, a member of the Public Digital network and has worked as a consultant for organisations including mySociety, the Ada Lovelace Institute and Full Fact. Before joining IfG, he was political adviser on culture, media and sport to Rt Hon Harriet Harman KC, and before that, senior editor at the Media Standards Trust and deputy director of the Orwell Prize.
Policy associate, Connected by Data