# Chief Identity Strategist, Open Identity Exchange

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Last updated: 2026-09-21
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## Bio

Nick Mothershaw is chief identity strategist at the Open Identity Exchange, where he leads work on trust frameworks and how they map to one another across jurisdictions. He was previously director of ID and fraud at Experian and built an early UK identity-as-a-service scheme used across public and private sectors.

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## Where their work shows up

Protocol interoperability is the easy half. The hard half is policy interoperability: a credential issued under one country's trust framework has to be accepted under another's, and the frameworks differ on privacy, inclusion, liability, and assurance because the societies differ. Mapping those differences is what makes cross-border digital identity possible at all. See the [regulations hub](https://startwithidentity.com/regulations/), [eIDAS](https://startwithidentity.com/glossary/eidas/), and [trust registry](https://startwithidentity.com/glossary/trust-registry/).