About

Antony is Head of Institutional Strategy at the UK AI Security Institute (AISI), a part of the UK government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT). In this role he leads the government’s work on institutional design for AI security regulation.

Prior to joining AISI, Antony was responsible (at DCMS) for the development and publication of the UK’s first Outcomes Monitoring Framework (published in 2022 and again in 2023) for digital regulation and determining what evidence would enable increased coherence across the UK’s digital regulatory regimes. Antony’s work on digital regulation has been reflected across several UK government strategies, including the Plan for Digital Regulation, UK Digital Strategy, and the Better Regulation Framework 2023.

Antony’s work has focused on the intersection between technology and governance. Before joining the UK Government, Antony worked in international roles, including as a consultant to the World Economic Forum on civil society and the Fourth Industrial Revolution, a Project Fellow at the Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network, and a Research Fellow at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), where his research focused on strengthening multistakeholder governance and was published via Chatham House.

Antony holds a Master of Public Administration from the London School of Economics. Antony has an BA from New York University, where he was also a Research Fellow at the NYU Governance Lab.

Research Interests

AI governance; Internet governance; digital democracy

Positions at the OII

• Visiting Policy Fellow, April 2025 -