1. Jenifer Fays Alys Tennison was born on 1972 and is a British software engineer and consultant who co-chairs the data governance working group within the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence.
11 Facts About Jeni Tennison
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Jeni Tennison serves on the board of directors of Creative Commons, the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data and the information law and policy centre of the School of Advanced Study at the University of London.
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Jeni Tennison was previously Chief Executive Officer of the Open Data Institute.
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Jeni Tennison has been the technical architect and lead developer for legislation.
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Jeni Tennison has authored or co-authored papers on XSLT, XML, structured data and knowledge bases.
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Jeni Tennison has authored books including Beginning XSLT, Beginning XSLT 2.0, XSLT and XPath on the Edge and Professional XML Schemas.
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Jeni Tennison was an invited expert on the XSL and XML processing working groups at the World Wide Web Consortium and was appointed to the W3C's Technical Architecture Group in 2011.
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Jeni Tennison has previously worked for the Open Knowledge Foundation and Epistemics Ltd.
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Jeni Tennison is the co-creator of the open data board game Datopolis.
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Jeni Tennison founded Connected by Data and leads a team with the mission of "we want communities to have a powerful say in decisions about data so that it is used to create a just, equitable and sustainable world".
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Jeni Tennison was appointed Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to Technology and Open Data.