Brad Lougher

I am currently a Senior Manager within the National Economic Crime Centre (NECC) Public Private Partnerships (PPP) Team of the UK National Crime Agency (NCA). In my role I am the Head of the UK's Data Fusion Joint Analytical Team (JAT). Data Fusion is a unique Public-Private data sharing capability set up jointly by several prominent UK banks and the NCA to share high risk customer data at scale to help tackle Serious Organised Crime. My team is responsible for the exploitation of a shared banking and NCA dataset, exploring opportunities to identify high-harm criminal networks through intelligence-led investigation and strategic data analytics. The unique nature of this role is that it is a hybrid public-private one. My home organisation is actually Lloyds Banking Group, from where I am currently on secondment to the NECC to fulfil the Head of the JAT role. I represent the banking industry within the public sector and direct the analysis undertaken in the JAT. Prior to my secondment I