Stephen Phillips
Lead Analyst

Stephen is a passionate advocate for the information industry. He believes Jinfo has a critical role to help clients maximise the value when buying information.

Stephen's expertise continues to be sought after. He currently serves as a non-executive director at M&A Monitor and Senior Advisor to Couranto UK Ltd.

His knowledge enriched "The Emerald Handbook of Modern Information Management". He is on the Business Information Review editorial board, and he led their annual survey.

Stephen's dedication extends to the wider information profession. He created a peer network for the UK's financial services industry. He also holds leadership positions with CILIP and SLA Europe.

His work with clients, suppliers and conferences keeps him at the forefront of the industry.

Before joining Jinfo, Stephen managed a global research team and extensive portfolio of suppliers at a global investment bank.

Stephen can be contacted at stephen.phillips@jinfo.com

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Articles by Stephen Phillips:


How BASF puts knowledge at the centre of innovation
Wednesday, 28th January 2026

A recent Jinfo Community session, with Dr Stephan Ballenweg of BASF, explored the development of “QKnows”, a global knowledge and information platform for 10,000 R&D researchers.

As a result of the session, Jinfo has produced a detailed report that gives an overview of the development of the QKnows platform, and eight actions for information leaders.

This blog gives some highlights from the report, including two actions, plus details of a forthcoming demo.


January 2026 update
Wednesday, 7th January 2026

  • GenAI strengths, weaknesses and limitations for adverse-media monitoring
  • Honing your information leadership skills
  • How GenAI is affecting your team, and what this means for your strategy.


Actions to balance the risks of adverse-media monitoring and web scraping for news content
Thursday, 18th December 2025

Jinfo has recently been focussing on new content monitoring, and the complex trade-off between comprehensive coverage, data integrity, and copyright risk.

In-depth results from our survey and Community session have generated a number of strategies and actions for information managers.

This blog outlines the issues, and some of the actions, which are available in the full report.


Opportunities for information managers in due diligence and third-party risk
Thursday, 11th December 2025

There are multiple opportunities for information managers to support their organisation’s due diligence and integrity research.

Here we capture some of the opportunities and recommendations from our new report.


News integrity and GenAI – the opportunity for information managers
Tuesday, 9th December 2025

A recent study* from the BBC and European Broadcasting Union (EBU) reveals the serious risks associated with using GenAI tools for news search.  

Jinfo has extracted the main insights, and produced a new report containing ten tactical and strategic actions for information managers.

Here is an overview of the issues, and two of the ten actions.