Broderick McDonald

Broderick McDonald is a researcher at the University of Oxford, Kings College London, and the Alan Turing Institute with a decade of experience across government, academia, technology, and civil society. Broderick's writing and commentary has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post,Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Financial Times, The Guardian, The Globe & Mail, Foreign Policy, and the Telegraph.Alongside his research, Broderick has provided expert analysis for a range of international news broadcasters including ABC News, BBC World News, BBC America, CBC News, Good Morning America, France24, and Al Jazeera News.

Broderick McDonald is a Research Fellow at Kings College London (XCEPT) and an Associate at the Oxford Emerging Threats Group, as well as a Visiting Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute (CETaS). Prior to this, he served as an Advisor in Parliament and as a researcher with the All Party Parliamentary Group for Genocide Prevention. Broderick was previously 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 has 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 in Syria. 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 policymakers, parliamentarians, intelligence agencies, international prosecutors, NGOs, social media platforms, and AI developers on emerging technologies and security threats from terrorist & extremist entities, non-state actors, and hostile foreign states.​