Ian is the Taxonomy Manager at Dods Group – the leading political intelligence service across the EU and the UK – where Ian owns and leads the management of all taxonomy categories and ontology relationships in the Dods Political Intelligence product, ensuring the platform is up-to-date, intuitive, and effective for all Dods clients.

Ian draws on over 30 years of experience in the information management industry, designing and utilising taxonomies and ontologies, developing metadata schemes, setting up and managing search tools, tagging content, and project managing varied consulting engagements from Seattle to Cape Town and Geneva to Singapore. Ian is passionate about data optimisation and findability and firmly believes that well organised data plays a big part in business success. Prior to Dods, Ian worked with a range of companies including: SGS, Codifyd, Dow Jones, BUPA, Photonica, and Corbis. Ian has a Masters degree in Information Studies from London Metropolitan University.