Broderick McDonald

Broderick McDonald is an Associate Fellow at Kings College London's International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and a doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford examining terrorism, violent extremism, and disinformation. He previously served as a Policy Advisor to the Government of Canada and as a researcher with the Non-Partisan Parliamentary Group for Genocide Prevention. Prior to this, he was a Fellow with the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and Executive Editor of the Cambridge International Law Journal. Broderick is an Associate Member of the Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET) and the Extremism and Gaming Research Network (EGRN), and the All Tech is Human Responsible AI Working Group. He is a research affiliate of the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP) at the University of North Caroline at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill) and the TSAS Research Network. Brody was recently named as a World Economic Forum Global Shaper and is a Fellow with the Aspen Institute UK. Broderick McDonald holds an MPhil (History) from the University of Cambridge and is an Associate Member of Chatham House in London.

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His research spans the ideological spectrum and has examined both Jihadist-Salafist and Far-Right extremism in the Middle East and North Africa, Centra Asia, and Europe. His research bridges the divide between online extremism and offline harms by collecting fine-grained data on conflict from fieldwork interviews and survey experiments. He previously lived in the Middle East and has conducted fieldwork in Lebanon, Turkiye, and Jordan. He has presented workshops and panels on countering terrorism, online extremism, and researcher safety at major academic and industry conferences. Alongside academic research, he collaborates with industry and stakeholders to better understand and counter online harms stemming from armed conflict, terrorism, and extremism.