Stephen Abbott Pugh is Open Ownership’s Head of Technology. He looks after the overall technical roadmap for the organisation, providing technical assistance to governments with implementing technology reforms to advance beneficial ownership transparency. He is the product owner of the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard and a range of other technical products.
Before joining Open Ownership, Stephen was the content development manager for the Open Knowledge Foundation, leading open data projects including Open Data Day and Open Data for Tax Justice. He has also worked at Code for Africa, the UK Parliament and the Guardian. Stephen lives in Brussels, Belgium and has previously lived in Rwanda, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.
