Lucy is the head of the Knowledge Unit at the Open Knowledge Foundation, which focusses on supporting data users (particularly journalists and NGOS) by organising training via School of Data and building software tools to fix data problems.

She has been at the foundation since 2011 and has worked on the OpenSpending project as a researcher and community coordinator. She co-authored the report for the Global Initiative on Fiscal Transparency on how technology can be used to promote transparency and accountability around government finance. She was also one of the editors of the the Data Journalism Handbook.

Topic of presentation: School of data: Create compelling stories using data

Organization: Open Knowledge Foundation