Stephen is currently an independent AI and Information/Data Management Consultant. Stephen undertook a post-graduate degree in Archives Administration and Records Management in the UK, before emigrating to New Zealand in 2005. He has worked in senior Information & Data Management roles across the New Zealand Public Sector for 20 years. His most recent role was as Chief Archivist, the Head of the National Archives, after moving on from his role as Chief Data Officer at the NZ Transport Agency. Stephen has undertaken similar roles in Inland Revenue, Dept. of Internal Affairs, Office of the Auditor General, the Office of the Ombudsman and the NZ National Grid, amongst others.
Stephen has been a strong advocate of standards for many years working with Standards New Zealand, Standards Australia, and the International Council on Archives (ICA-Req) since 2007, and for ISO since 2010. He has worked on standards such as ISO 15489, ISO 13028, ISO 16175, ISO 23081, and the ISO 30300 series. He is very honoured and excited to be working on the new ISO Standard for Records Management for Artificial Intelligence. As an anthropologist Stephen understands human systems, and as a technical expert he understands information systems. Using technology to connect these two systems to get the right information, to the right people at the right time, ethically is his professional goal.
