Broderick James McDonald is a leading academic researcher at Oxford University, The Alan Turing Institute, and Kings College London with fifteen years of experience across government, academia, and tech. His research focuses on AI Safety and countering global security threats and online harms from terrorism, extremism, harmful manipulation, hybrid warfare, counterintelligence, youth radicalisation, child safety, and election interference. Broderick's writing and commentary has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Financial Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Globe and Mail amongst 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, Good Morning America, France24, and Al Jazeera News.
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Broderick McDonald is a Research Fellow at Kings College London's XCEPT Research Programme, a Research Associate at the Oxford Emerging Threats Group, and a Visiting Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute's Centre for Emerging Technology & Security (CETaS). Prior to this, he served as an Advisor in Parliament and as a researcher with 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, the Aspen Institute UK's RLF Advisory Board, and the GLOCA Board of Advisors. Alongside his research, Broderick has advised government departments, NGOs, law enforcement agencies, intelligence agencies, international prosecutors, parliamentarians, AI Security Institutes, frontier AI labs, and social media companies on security threats and emerging technologies
