Dr. Keegan McBride is a Departmental Research Lecturer in AI, Government, and Policy at the University of Oxford's Internet Institute and a former postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Digital Governance. He is an expert on topics such as digital government, digital innovation, the use of AI in the public sector, digital well being and happiness, and government interoperability and data exchange.
He is an active member of the scholarly community, participating in several high-level digital government focused conferences and publishing in leading peer reviewed digital government focused journals. In his research he develops an understanding about the future trajectory of the state in the digital age by exploring the complex and co evolutionary relationships between technology, society, and the state.
Outside of these academic interests, Keegan is actively working with NGOs, particularly those that focus on reimagining a better, open, human centric, and equitable digital future , he can additionally be found consulting and working with government s and private sector organizations on the topic of governmental digitalization. Keegan received an MSc in e Govern ance Technologies and Services and completed his doctoral studies in public administration both at the Tallinn University of Technology in Tallinn, Estonia.
