Jerry Fishenden’s career spans both public and private sectors, including roles advising and guiding governments on how to tackle some of the biggest technology and public policy issues facing society.
Jerry’s previous roles include Chief Technology Officer / technology business leader at Microsoft UK; the City of London lead financial regulator; Parliament, where he pioneered the Parliamentary data and video network and put Parliament on the web; and the NHS.
Jerry was appointed as the specialist adviser to support several House of Commons’ Committee inquiries into digital government. Other previous engagements include: Specialist Adviser on digital identity, privacy, and security to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS); adviser to the Isle of Man Government; technical consultant to the National Audit Office; Chief Technical Adviser to the Home Office; interim Deputy CTO UK Government; Senior Technical Adviser to the Cabinet Office.
His latest book, “Fracture: The collision between technology and democracy—and how we fix it”, explores the opportunities and challenges created by technology for the future of democracy and our democratic institutions.
Jerry is a member of the Scottish Government’s Digital Identity Scotland Expert Group; a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET); a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA); and a member of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain.
His apps ‘London Explorer’ and ‘London Streets’ can be found in the app stores for iOS and Google.
A selection of his musical compositions can be found on Soundcloud.
Jerry’s academic roles have included: Cambridge Judge Business School, Visiting Guest Lecturer; Visiting Professor, University of Surrey Centre for the Digital Economy; Senior Research Fellow and later Visiting Senior Fellow, Bath Spa University’s Centre for Creative Computing: Visiting Senior Fellow, London School of Economics Department of Management; Member of Cambridge University’s Open Platforms and Innovation Group.
Educated at a now demolished Croydon (South London) comprehensive school, Jerry obtained his BSc (Hons) and MPhil (in the application of artificial intelligence to composition) from City, University of London and his PhD from De Montfort University.
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