Jerry Fishenden is a Co-Founder and Director of the Centre for Technology Policy Research and a Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics. He is also a Non-Executive and Executive Director, and a strategic adviser, for various organisations.

His career in some of the UK's most senior IT positions has included working as Microsoft's chief technology policy and strategy advisor; as Head of Business Systems for the 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 at the Houses of Parliament, as well as putting Parliament on the World Wide Web; and as a Director of IT in the National Health Service.

He is a regular contributor to a variety of media, and often appears as a guest and keynote speaker in both the UK and abroad, drawing on his background across both private and public sectors.

Jerry is a Fellow with Chartered status of the British Computer Society (FBCS CITP), a Fellow of the Institute for the Management of Information Systems (FIMIS), a Fellow of the Institution of Analysts and Programmers (FIAP) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). He is also a professional writer and composer. Jerry is a professional member of the Writers Guild of Great Britain, a successful radio playwright, author and freelance journalist.