Francesca (Frankie) Kay joined the Central Statistics Office in December 2020 and is the Chief Information Officer (CIO). She is responsible for a broad remit covering technology, quality, methodology, administrative data as well as population and vital statistics. The overall goal of her area is to provide an integrated set of services to exploit new and varied data sources, collected and shared in a variety of ways, whilst modernising the technology used at the CSO. Frankie is the Management Board champion for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, supporting a number of initiatives to make the CSO a more inclusive organisation both for its employees but also to ensure our statistics and data reflect everyone in society.
Frankie moved to Ireland after an extensive career leading technology and transformation in the private sector and most recently in a number of senior leadership roles at the UK's Office for National Statistics. These included heading both the Economic Statistics and Census Data Collection Transformation Programmes, before being appointed as the Interim Director General for Data Capability with overall responsibility for Technology, Methodology and Data Research and Data Science.