Chris Chant, Director of Digital, Cabinet Office
Chris is Director of the
G-Cloud Programme, Executive Director of Direct Gov and Digital Engagement with
the UK Government Cabinet Office. He is responsible for setting the strategy
for the use of cloud computing and data centre consolidation across the public
sector. Chris also has strategic responsibility for greening UK Governments
ICT
Previously he was Director of London 2012 Integration and Assurance and also
Chief Information Officer within the Government Olympic Executive (GOE). As
well as ensuring coordinated delivery of the ICT capabilities required for the
Games as a whole, he also had specific responsibility in the multi-agency Olympic
Security Directorate (including the Home Office and Metropolitan Police) for
ensuring integrated delivery of the security systems required.
Before that Chris was Chief Information Officer for Defra. A civil servant since
1976, he has a long track record of success in delivering complex business and
technology change in the public sector. After his early career as an Operational
Manager in the (then) Inland Revenue, where he was responsible for turning around
the operational performance of one of the largest Revenue offices, he led delivery
of HMRC’s innovative online systems for Self Assessment, PAYE and Corporation
Tax. He then worked for the UK Government CIO as Delivery Director at the Cabinet
Office where he was programme director for a range of large and complex multi-agency
IT services, including the Government Gateway, the Critical National Infrastructure
supporting authentication and secure transactions for millions of UK citizens
and businesses.