Simon is the Director of Policy, Strategy, Communications and Marketing at Cifas, the UK’s leading fraud prevention service. Before joining Cifas in June this year, Simon was Chief Policy and Communications Officer at Stop Scams UK. Simon Started his career in the Civil Service working across a number of Whitehall departments including as Deputy Director for Telecommunications and Internet Policy at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and as Head of Policy on the Leveson Inquiry into phone hacking. He joined Three, the mobile phone network as Director of Public Policy in 2013. Simon has also served as a local Councillor in the London Borough of Waltham Forest and as Cabinet Member for Economic Growth and Housing Development for six years until May 2022 leading work on one of the most ambitious house building and regeneration programmes in London,