Jerry Fishenden

Jerry Fishenden is a British technologist. Fishenden has been referred to as "one of the UK’s leading authorities in the world of technology",^[1][2] and appears regularly in a variety of mainstream media.^[3]

In 1984 he graduated with a BSc (Hons) from the City University, London, where he also later obtained an MPhil ^[4] In 2013, he was awarded a PhD in creative technologies from De Montfort University's Institute of Creative Technologies.^[5]

He was appointed as the specialist adviser to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee for their inquiry into Digital Government^[6] (2018-2019) and is a member of the Scottish Government's Online Identity Assurance Expert Group.^[7] He was a cofounder and director of the former Centre for Technology Policy Research, and formerly a senior research fellow in the Centre for Creative Computing at Bath Spa University,^[8] and a visiting senior fellow at the London School of Economics Department of Management^[9] as well as being a key advisor to the Policy Engagement Network. In November 2010 he was appointed as a specialist adviser to the House of Commons Public Administration Select Committee to assist the committee with their inquiry into government IT.^[10] From 2009 to 2010, he was appointed as a member of the Scottish Government's expert panel on identity management and privacy,^[11][12] and has been an invited speaker at the Cambridge Union Society.^[13] He was the co-chair of the U.K. Government's Privacy and Consumer Advisory Group from 2011 to 2017.^[14]

He has held a variety of the IT industry's most senior positions, including as the UK Government's interim deputy chief technology officer,^[15] Microsoft's lead technology policy and strategy advisor; as head of business systems for the UK's chief financial services regulator in the City of London; as an officer of the House of Commons, where he pioneered the Parliamentary data and video network^[16] at the Houses of Parliament, as well as putting Parliament on the World Wide Web;^[17] and as a director of IT in the National Health Service.

His blog tackles issues at the intersection of technology and policy. Analysts Redmonk have referred to him as being a 'trusted advisor'.^[18] His Scotsman article on the proposed Identity Card for the UK, which was the first public commentary on the system by a recognised industry figure, opened up constructive debate on an important topic.^{[19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35]}

He is a fellow with Chartered status of the British Computer Society (FBCS CITP),^[36] a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), a fellow of the Institute for the Management of Information Systems (FIMIS) and a fellow of the Institution of Analysts and Programmers.^[37] He is also a long-time member of the Writers Guild of Great Britain.

• CIO, "Whitehall CIO role needs thorough reappraisal" Archived 20 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
• The Register, "Can the UK have its identity strategy back, Mr President?"
• The Register, "So what do we do when ID Cards 1.0 finally dies?
• The Financial Times, "New models of security and privacy"
• Scottish Government Press Release, "Improving public confidence in online services"
• The Daily Telegraph, “Who Do They Think We Are?”
• Computer Weekly, “Identity Assurance for the UK”
• Health Service Journal, “Technology as a Transformational Enabler of Health Policy”
• ZDNet, “The Big Interview: Jerry Fishenden” Archived 6 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine
• The BBC, “European Phishing Gangs Targeted”
• ZDNet, “Open Source Community Wooed by Microsoft” Archived 17 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine
• The Scotsman, “ID Cards will lead to “massive fraud””
• The Financial Times, “Fishenden climbs the Microsoft ladder”
• Jerry Fishenden’s blog on new technology observations from a UK perspective
• Jerry Fishenden’s research site into the application of new creative technologies