Bio
Jeni Tennison is a CIGI senior fellow and the founder and executive director of Connected by Data, an initiative that aims to put community at the heart of data narratives, practices and policies.
She is the co-chair of the Working Group on Data Governance at the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence and a Shuttleworth Foundation fellow. She is an adjunct professor at the Web Science Institute at the University of Southampton and an associated researcher at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, where she examines the practice and public policy behind collective data governance. She also sits on the boards of Creative Commons, the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data and the Information Law and Policy Centre.
Jeni is a former CEO of 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.
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.