Blake is Director of Government and Regulatory Affairs for IBM in the UK. As such, he is responsible for the development of proactive public policy strategies and the wider relationship between IBM and the UK government. 

Before joining IBM Blake was a Civil Servant and worked on a range of issues in various departments. Most recently he was Executive Director of the Digital Economy Unit at DSIT where he was responsible for digital markets and competition reforms, the government’s relationship with the technology sector, digital skills policy, and the UK’s digital strategy. 

As author of the UK government’s White Paper on the regulation of Artificial Intelligence he was named by Politico as one of the 14 people who matter in UK AI policy.