Digital Government Excellence

CHAPTER 14Mike Bracken: United Kingdom

 

Mike Bracken is a founding partner of Public Digital, a global digital transformation consultancy helping governments and large organizations thrive and survive in the internet era. Together with colleagues at Public Digital, he coauthored the book Digital Transformation at Scale: Why The Strategy Is Delivery.

Mike was appointed Executive Director of Digital of the UK government in 2011 and its Chief Data Officer in 2014, where he created and led the Government Digital Service (GDS). After government, he sat on the board of the Co-operative Group as Chief Digital Officer.

Before joining the civil service, Mike was the Digital Development Director at Guardian News & Media. In his executive career, he has grown several technology companies and occupied C-suite roles in a variety of sectors in more than a dozen countries.

His nonexecutive portfolio includes Lloyds of London, the world's leading insurance market, and the Omidyar Network, a philanthropic investment firm. Mike also advises the Inter-American Development Bank and is the Honorary Professor at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at University College London. He was named UK Chief Digital Officer of the year in 2014 and awarded a CBE.

 

 

 

Mike Bracken is a living legend in the digital government circles. Everyone knows him or knows about him for the work he and the ...