In The News
Broderick McDonald frequently provides expert analysis on global security threats, including terrorism, extremism, and technology. He has provided on-air analysis for a wide range of media and international news broadcasters, including ABC News, BBC World News, CBC News, BBC America, PBS News, Good Morning America (GMA), Al Jazeera News, and France24. He has also given expert commentary for news outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Financial Times, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Prospect Magazine, The National News, Middle East Eye, L’Orient-Le Jour, BBC News, Al Jazeera, France24, NewsGuard, CBC News, ABC News, Al Arabiya, Enab Baladi News, Levant24, CS Monitor, The Australian, and The Globe & Mail, amongst others. Broderick McDonald has appeared on prominent podcasts and radio interviews, including BBC Radio Four, CBC Radio Canada, BBC Radio Oxford,The Global Tech Podcast, The International Risk Podcast, BBC's The Conflict Podcast, The EU Tech Terror Takedown Podcast, Kings College London's War Studies Podcast, The Somewhere on Earth Podcast, The Orion Policy Institute Podcast, and The Tech Against Terrorism Podcast
For media requests & interviews, please send email broderick.mcdonald@kcl.ac.uk or use my contact form.
Keynote Speaker
Broderick McDonald is a keynote speaker and panellist for international conferences and colloquia. He has spoken at major international conferences including the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT), The Global Coaltion Against ISIS, The Astana International Forum (AIF), The Global Counter Terrorism Forum (GCTF), The International Institute For Justice & Rule of Law (IIJ), Hedayah International Research Conference, The Counter Terror Expo London (CTX), Aqaba Process High-Level Experts Meeting on AI and Counter Terrorism, and the Terrorism and Social Media Conference (TASM). Broderick McDonald has also spoken at Kings College London's ICSR and XCEPT Conferences, the Oxford Generative AI Summit, the United Nations EF Summit, and numerous academic conferences and workshops in the US, UK., EU, and Canada
For speaking enquiries, please email broderick.mcdonald@kcl.ac.uk or fill in the contact form
Talks, Podcasts, Television Interviews
McDonald, Broderick. "Gaming, Extremism, and Counterterrorism" at the Global Coalition Against Daesh Communications Working Group, UK Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO) and the Global Coalition Against ISIS, The Royal Society, London UK, September 2025
McDonald, Broderick. "Unraveling the Present, Forecasting the Future with Broderick McDonald" on The International Risk Podcast with Dominic Bowens, Oxford, England, September 2025
McDonald, Broderick. "Terrorist Use of Agentic AI" at the Aqaba Process Expert-Level Conference on Disrupting Terrorist Activities Through Generative AI”, The Royal Hashemite Court and UK Ministry of Defence, London, England, July 2025
McDonald, Broderick. “Terrorist Misuse of AI Systems for Attack Planning, TVEC, and CBRN Threats”, Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF)/US State Department, Doha, Qatar, 28 June 2025
McDonald, Broderick. “AI Safety in Practice: Safeguarding Against Real‑World Misuse and Near‑Term Harms.”, Oxford Technology & Security Nexus (OTSN), Nuffield College, Oxford University, 15 May 2025
McDonald, Broderick. “Preparing Industry for Near-Term & Immediate Harms from AI Systems”, Global Internet Forum for Countering Terrorism (GIFCT), AI Industry Working Group, London, United Kingdom, 10 May 2025
McDonald, Broderick. “Preventing Exploitation of AI Systems by Terrorist & Extremist Entities, Hostile Foreign States, and Organized Crime”, Oxford Emerging Threats Group (ETG), Changing Character of War Centre, Pembroke College, Oxford University, 23 February 2025
McDonald, Broderick. “Foreign Terrorist Fighters & Global Networks in Syria” XCEPT Research Conference, Centre for Statecraft & National Security, Kings College London, 13-14 May 2025
McDonald, Broderick. “Digital Evidence and Emerging Security Threats from Non-State Actors”, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) / IIJ Training on Digital Evidence in a Counter Terrorism Context for the International Prosecutors, Valetta, Malta, 27-28 January 2025
McDonald, Broderick, Nafees Hamid, Rahaf Al-Doughli, Nils Mallock. “From Rebels to Rulers”, The War Studies Podcast, Kings College London, 18 January 2024
McDonald, Broderick. “Israel, Syria, and the Six-Day War”, BBC The Conflict: Middle East Podcast, London, 20 December 2024
McDonald, Broderick, Nafees Hamid, Rahaf Al-Doughli, Nils Mallock. “Towards a New Syria: Understanding the Motivations and Values of Syria’s New Rulers”, International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR), Kings College London, 18 January 2024
McDonald, Broderick. “The Use of Drones & Emerging Technology by Non-State Actors”, The Global Tech Podcast, Somewhere on Earth Productions, BBC Studios, London, 17 December 2024
McDonald, Broderick. “Use of AI in Preventing Online Harms & Malicious Actors”, Hedayah International Research Conference, Queen Elizabeth II Centre, London, 29-30 October 2024
McDonald, Broderick. “AI and UAS Drone Systems”, Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF), Lancaster House, London, 22-23 October 2024
McDonald, Broderick. “Using AI to Prevent Online Harms”, EU Commission/FRISCO Project Final Conference, Brussels, 17-18 October 2024
McDonald, Broderick "Borderline Content, Free Speech, and Human Rights" VOXPol Webinar Series, with Hannah Rose, Heidi Schulze & Simon Greipl, and Ursula Schmid. Online. 03 July 2024
McDonald, Broderick. “Red Teaming for Law Enforcement, NGOs, and AI Developers”, Social Media & Terrorism Conference, Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law, 19-20 June 2024
McDonald, Broderick. “Generative AI, Disinformation, and Society”, Commonwealth Parliamentarians Conference, Commonwealth Parliaments Association Secretariat, 04 December 2023
McDonald, Broderick. “Generative AI and Online Harms”, Ditchley AI Discussions, Ditchley Foundation, 30 October 2023
McDonald, Broderick. “The Role of Generative AI in Shaping Extremism, Disinformation, and Elections”, Oxford Generative AI Summit, Jesus College Oxford Digital Hub, Oxford Internet Institute, 22 October 2023
McDonald, Broderick. “Rebel Governance and Salafi-Jihadist Groups”, Centre for the Study of Intractable Conflict (CRIC) Annual Conference, University of Oxford, 18 September 2023
McDonald, Broderick. “Leading from Beside”, Global Leadership Initiative Conference, Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub, University of Oxford, 23 June 2023
McDonald, Broderick. “Next Generation Leadership”, OCP Business & Society Conference, Rhodes House, University of Oxford, 16 June 2023
McDonald, Broderick and Guy Fiennes. “Counter-Terrorism and Russia’s Wagner Group in the Sahel and West Africa” Orion Policy Institute Podcast, 14 June 2023
McDonald, Broderick. “Understanding Jihadist Proto-States: Rebel Governance and the Next Generation of Jihadist Salafist Extremism” CDA Institute Conference, 29 September 2022
McDonald, Broderick. “Mitigating the Mental Health Risks of Researching Violent Extremism” Terrorism and Social Media Conference, Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law, 28 June 2022
McDonald, Broderick. “Identity, Nationalism, and Fragmentation in the Modern Middle East” Middle East & Islamic Studies Consortium Conference, University of British Columbia, 16 May 2016
