Jeni Tennison

Jeni leads Connected by data, an initiative that aims to put community at the heart of data narratives, practices and policies.

She is co-chair of GPAI’s Data Governance WG, a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow and Associated Researcher at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy. She sits on the Boards of Creative Commons, the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data and the Information Law and Policy Centre. She was CEO of the Open Data Institute, where she worked for nine years.

She loves Lego and board games, and is the proud co-creator of the open data board game, Datopolis.