I am a research, policy and strategy professional, focusing on the governance of digital technology, transformation and change. I advise multilateral and multistakeholder organisations, governments, the private sector and civil society, and publish in popular, policy and peer-reviewed publications. My work asks how digital technologies, transformation and governance are designed, governed, and contested, and moves between policy engagement, strategy and peer-reviewed research.

Technology is neither good nor bad, but never neutral, as Kranzberg put it: what gets built reflects the interests and incentives of the people and institutions behind it, and governance is how those interests get engaged rather than designed away. The future is also already here, just unevenly distributed, as Gibson said — which is why I pay close attention to what's happening at the margins: it's usually where everyone else's future shows up first.

I treat building real systems — not just writing about them — as part of that practice. I also tinker with the technologies I advise on.