Keegan McBride

PhD Researcher at the Hertie School’s Centre for Digital Governance and non-resident research fellow at the Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government.

Keegan McBride is a postdoctoral researcher at the Hertie School’s Centre for Digital Governance and non-resident research fellow at the Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government. Keegan completed his MSc in e-Governance Technologies and Services and his PhD in Technology Governance at Tallinn University of Technology. His personal research interests are related to wellbeing and happiness, digital government (broadly), open government data, and artificial intelligence in the public sector. Keegan previously served as the Manager of the GovAiLab at Tallinn University of Technology, the chief technical developer of Estonia’s open government data portal, and worked as a consultant for the OECD’s Office for Public Sector Innovation (OPSI) on the technical aspects of AI in the public sector.