About

Matt is Deputy Director at the Department for Business and Trade and was its senior lead for the Economic Crime & Corporate Transparency Act 2023 and the Economic Crime (T&E) Act 2022. He has policy responsibility for core elements of UK company law, with a particular focus at present on measures to reform Companies House and tackle the misuse of corporate entities in economic crime.  Until recently, he was also Chair of the UK Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative. He has been in this role since 2016, having previously spent seven years as a senior advisor at HM Treasury, majoring on tax, welfare and energy policy. Prior to that he worked for the National Audit Office, reviewing the efficiency and effectiveness of government agencies and programmes in the energy and defence sectors. He is a chartered accountant (FCA) and holds a degree from Oxford University.