Jeni Tennison
Executive Director at Connected by Data
Epsom and Ewell, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJeni Tennison is an accomplished data and AI leader with 15+ years driving policy, governance and technical practice across government, academia and the non-profit sector. As founder and Executive Director of Connected by Data and former CEO of the Open Data Institute, she combines hands-on technical pedigree—from architecting legislation.gov.uk and early work on data.gov.uk—to strategic leadership on open data, portability and trustworthy AI. She chairs the UK Government Digital Service’s Responsible AI Advisory Panel and holds senior fellow and academic appointments, shaping public-sector adoption of responsible AI at scale. Her PhD in AI underpins a rare blend of technical depth and policy savvy, reflected in board roles at Creative Commons and long-standing contributions to web standards such as the W3C TAG. Outside work she channels curiosity into playful public engagement with data, co-creating the open-data board game Datopolis.
15 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Psychology and Artificial Intelligence, PhD, Psychology and Artificial Intelligence at University of Nottingham
Github Skills (61)
csv10
x509certificates10
certificate-generation9
trust9
open-data8
ruby8
schematron6
connected6
ruby-on-rails5
xml5
internet5
api5
xquery5
python5
member4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
JeniT/nhs-top-trumps
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
connectedbydata/connectedbydata.org
Jan 2022 - Mar 2025
Website for Connected by Data
Contributions:5 PRs, 305 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 1 month
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