Mike Bracken

Mike Bracken is a public sector technology leader who was a founder and executive director of the UK Government Digital Service (GDS). Under his leadership, the UK became a world leader in digital government, with the US Digital Service, the Australian Digital Transformation Office and numerous others modelling themselves on GDS, as a founder nation of the Digital 5.

Career Bracken was director of digital development at Guardian News & Media. He was headhunted by the UK Government and joined the Government Digital Service in July 2011. He became chief data officer in 2014. He left GDS in September 2015.

He is a visiting professor of practice at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.