Jonathan Middleton joined UK Finance in 2018 and leads UK Finance’s Digital and Innovation work across a range of policy areas including Digital Identity, AI, Fintech and Open Data Economy.

Prior to joining UK Finance, Jonathan was Head of Technology Policy at the Government Digital Service in the UK Cabinet Office. He was primarily responsible for managing cross-government policy and technology standards for how departments bought, built and managed their technology estate. He also led work on emerging and disruptive technologies including distributed ledger, AR/VR, internet of things, and AI/machine learning.