Lucy Vickers, Chief Data Officer, Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC).

Lucy has extensive senior-level experience in developing data and analytical work programmes, establishing teams, building capability and capacity, working collaboratively across the health sector, wider government, and in partnership with academia.

She has worked at DHSC for five years, joining during the COVID-19 pandemic to set up and lead the data and analytical function in the Test and Trace Programme, then led Statistics and Data Science before moving to her current role.

She has previously worked at the Office for National Statistics and other government departments, where she led analytical work on health and care, population studies, and administrative data. She also played a key role in establishing the Administrative Data Research Service (ADR UK).