Broderick James McDonald FRSA

University of Oxford / Kings College LondonThe Alan Turing Institute

Broderick James McDonald is a leading expert on AI Safety, and a behavioural scientist at Oxford, Kings College London, and The Alan Turing Institute. He is a Senior Research Fellow at Oxford's Emerging Threats Group, a Research Fellow at Kings College London's XCEPT Research Programme, and a CETaS Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute. He previously served as a Special Advisor in Parliament and as a researcher with the All Party Parliamentary Group for Genocide Prevention. Prior to this, he was a Fellow with the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and an Associate Fellow of the Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET). He currently serves on the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism's Independent Advisory Board, the Aspen Institute UK's RLF Advisory Board, and the Board of Advisors for American University's Open Source Intelligence Repository. Alongside academia, he often collaborates with industry and Five Eyes governments to counter national security threats and online harms. He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, and is an associate of Chatham House in London

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Broderick James McDonald FRSA is an internationally-recognized academic researcher at Oxford University, Kings College London, and The Alan Turing Institute. With more than a decade of experience across government, national security, academia, and civil society. His research focuses on countering global security threats from terrorism, extremism, child safety, youth radicalisation, nihilistic violent extremism, hybrid warfare, and disinformation across ideologies and contexts. Broderick James' research and commentary has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Financial Times, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The National Interest, The Globe and Mail and others. Alongside his research, Broderick provides expert analysis for a range of international news broadcasters including ABC News, BBC News, BBC America, CBC News, PBS News, Good Morning America, CBC The National, France24, and Al Jazeera News.Prior to this, Broderick served in a variety of government roles and lived in the Middle East. He was previously a researcher with Stanford's Mapping Militants Programme and the All Party Parliamentary Group for Genocide Prevention. Previously, he was a Fellow with the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the Royal Society of the Arts. He previously lived in the Middle East and conducted extensive interviews with armed combatants and foreign terrorist fighters (FTFs) and combatants from ISIS, HTS, and other armed groups. Broderick has conducted fieldwork across the Middle East and Central Asia, including Jordan, Lebanon, Türkiye, Uzbekistan and organised Large-N quantitative and qualitative research projects. His research has been funded by the University of Oxford, the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), UK International Development, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Kings College London, and the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). He currently serves on the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT)'s Independent Advisory Committee, an initative established by Meta, Google, Microsoft, and other technology platforms to counter terrorist misuse of the internet. Outside of this, he serves on the GLOCA Board of Advisors, the EU's VOX-Pol Network of Excellence leadership team, and the Aspen Institute UK's RLF Advisory Board. Alongside his research, Broderick has advised governments, NGOs, law enforcement agencies, intelligence agencies, international prosecutors, parliamentarians, AI Security Institutes, frontier AI labs, and social media platforms on security threats and emerging technologiesOutside of this, Broderick is an Associate Member of the Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET), and the Extremism and Gaming Research Network (EGRN), and the All Tech is Human Responsible AI Working Group. He is a research affiliate of the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP) at the University of North Caroline at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill) and the TSAS Research Network. He was previously as Associate Fellow at Kings College London's International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) and a co-founder of the Oxford Disinformation & Extremism Lab (OxDEL). He holds an Master's Degree from the University of Cambridge where he was a Prime Minister Mackenzie King Scholar. Broderick was recently named as a World Economic Forum Global Shaper and is an Associate Member of Chatham House in London.

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