Bio
Jeni Tennison is a CIGI senior fellow and the founder of Connected by Data, a campaign that aims to put community at the centre of data narratives, practices and policies. She is an adjunct professor at the University of Southampton’s Web Science Institute and a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow.
Jeni was CEO at the Open Data Institute, where she held leadership roles for nine years and worked with companies and governments to build an open, trustworthy data ecosystem; a co-chair of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence’s Working Group on Data Governance; and an associate researcher at the University of Cambridge’s Bennett Institute for Public Policy. She sits on the boards of Creative Commons and the Information Law and Policy Centre.
She has a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence and an Order of the British Empire for services to technology and open data. She loves Lego and board games and is the proud co-creator of the open data board game, Datopolis.