Helen Margetts
Digitalisierung und Demokratie

Helen Margetts OBE FBA is Professor of Society and the Internet at the University of Oxford, and Director of the Public Policy Programme at the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science and AI.  She was Director (2011-18) of the Oxford Internet Institute, a multi-disciplinary department of the University of Oxford and Director of the School of Public Policy, UCL (2000-4). She has degrees in Mathematics (BSc), Politics (MSc) and Government (PhD, LSE). She has researched and written extensively about the relationship between technology, government, politics and public policy, including Political Turbulence which won the Political Studies Association’s 2017 prize for best politics book. 

She received the Technical University of Munich’s Friedrich Schiedel prize (2018), the O.B.E for services to social and political science (2019) and held a Senior Chair in Technology & Society at the Library of Congress (2019). She became a Fellow of the British Academy in 2019.  In 2020, Professor Margetts was awarded the Meyer-Stuckmann Prize for the promotion of humanities and social science research.