Natalie Jones OBE

Natalie Jones OBE is the Director for Digital Identity at GDS. Her previous roles at the Home Office include delivery of the EU Settlement Scheme where she was the DDaT accountable lead for the end to end digital solution which has now been used by over six million EU citizens to give them formal rights to stay in the UK. More recently she has been also fulfilling the role of Delivery Director on the Digital Services at the Border programme, which has just completed a national roll out of new critical national infrastructure at the UK border as well as enabling technical work to support health measures at the border and quarantining arrangements for those arriving in the UK. Within the Home Office Natalie led the ‘person’ group of products which includes digital authentication and identity assurance for all UK migrants and brings this breadth of critical national infrastructure engineering and digital identity knowledge to her new role within GDS.