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Jonathan Daniel Evans

Civil Servant
London

Summary

I am a Senior Manager in the Civil Service with eight years experience across a broad range of high-profile policy areas. This has equipped me with a deep understanding of how government operates and a strong generalist skillset spanning policy, communications, analysis, leadership and parliamentary processes. Across all my roles, I have been recognised as a thought leader who anticipates and pre-empts issues - being able to skillfully deconstruct and frame complex issues at the strategic level to build policy communities and coalitions with senior officials, external stakeholders and political actors to drive effective change. I have a deep interest in politics and public policy, and am now looking to apply my experience and drive in a private sector role.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Head of Border Resilience

Department for Transport
3 2021 - Current
  • Led on aspects of the Department’s COVID-19 response, including international travel restrictions and related domestic regulations - working closely with No.10 and other government departments alongside industry. I developed several innovative policy trials to test the effectiveness of various travel quarantine measures, the results of which were recognised by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and have gone on to form the basis of international public policy recommendations.
  • Built a new strategic borders function in the department to respond to increasing border friction arising from EU-Exit, COVID-19 and supply chain problems. This involved developing a clear vision and objectives for the new unit and providing leadership in its establishment. I built the department's capability in understanding the complex array of different border policies and processes of both the UK and its trading partners to effectively influence their design and operation in the interest of transport stakeholders. In doing so establishing the department as a credible expert and actor in the border policy space.
  • Led on the development of a long-term strategy for reducing disruption to traffic and supply-chains based around the Short Straits (Channel crossings). Effectively deconstructing a long-standing issue and developing an innovative solution combining technology and infrastructure to solve this, whilst building consensus amongst stakeholders to progress with what was initially a controversial proposals.

Head of International Regulatory Cooperation and Engagement

Better Regulation Executive, Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy
9 2019 - 3 2021
  • I managed a policy team collaborating with international partners and organisations to promote good regulatory practices globally and work to reduce regulatory barriers to trade – particularly in innovative products and services. This involved working across regulators, both domestic and international, to identify opportunities across a range of innovative policy to harmonise regulations and scale markets for British innovators.
  • Led UK Government bilateral and multilateral engagement with the OECD, Commonwealth, World Economic Forum (WEF), World Bank, G7/20 and EU Commission on regulatory policy issues. I proactively established and led a new inter-governmental network involving seven countries to take forward opportunities to co-experiment in the development of regulations for new technologies. The work programme I developed led to substantive international cooperation, with real world tangible benefits for our regulators and UK plc.
  • Working across the UK Government and national regulators to reform the policy and legislative making processes to account for greater international regulatory cooperation. Through this I developed a deep understanding of regulatory theory and the application of different types of regulatory frameworks across different sectors.

Head of Online Harms White Paper

Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
05.2018 - 09.2019
  • Project manager and policy lead for the world’s first comprehensive regulatory framework for harmful content (whether illegal or legal). I established a joint unit with Home Office which I co-led, leading the analysis of a complex set of novel policy issues on which I closely advised ministers.
  • I set up and led a large policy team (c.30 FTE) to develop the rationale and regulatory options in consultation with external, international, governmental and parliamentary stakeholders.
  • The resulting policy I led the development of, had broad support from industry and civil society and has since been implemented into UK law.

Senior Policy Adviser

Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
12.2016 - 05.2018
  • I had Overall responsibility for managing the relationship between the UK Government and Office for Communications (‘Ofcom’, the UK’s independent communications regulator) - providing strategic advice to senior officials and ministers on a wide range of complex regulatory frameworks and issues, and navigated a series of high-profile and contentious governance issues.
  • I led policy engagement across government on economic regulatory policy, fiscal policy, telecoms policy, broadcasting policy, management of public money, governance, devolution, EU policy and the UK’s exit from the EU in relation to the Ofcom.
  • I managed the process of cancelling the planned second stage of the Leveson Inquiry into press regulation, analysing and responding to one of the largest ever government consultations. Following its cancellation, I then worked with No.10 and ministers to defeat a series of hostile legislative amendments in Parliament that attempted to reverse this decision.

EU and International Policy Adviser

Department for Work and Pensions
02.2016 - 12.2016
  • I led coordination of the Department’s and wider UK Government engagement with the International Labour Organisation, G20, European Council, Council of Europe and UN on social and employment policy. This gave me a deep understanding of the EU legislative process on which I closely advised ministers, and the opportunity to represent and defend the UK in international fora across a wide range of contentious policy issues.
  • I operationally implemented EU regulations relating to EURES (the European Jobs Portal) across the UK’s public employment service and developing a UK strategy for its use that involved building strategic partnerships with the private sector.

Education

MSc Global Politics and Civil Society -

London School of Economics and Political Science
01.2014 - 04.2015

BA Geography - undefined

London School of Economics and Political Science
01.2011 - 04.2014

Organization

Better Regulation Executive, Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy

Timeline

Head of Online Harms White Paper

Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
05.2018 - 09.2019

Senior Policy Adviser

Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
12.2016 - 05.2018

EU and International Policy Adviser

Department for Work and Pensions
02.2016 - 12.2016

MSc Global Politics and Civil Society -

London School of Economics and Political Science
01.2014 - 04.2015

BA Geography - undefined

London School of Economics and Political Science
01.2011 - 04.2014

Head of Border Resilience

Department for Transport
3 2021 - Current

Head of International Regulatory Cooperation and Engagement

Better Regulation Executive, Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy
9 2019 - 3 2021

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