Broderick McDonald

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Broderick McDonald's research and consulting work focusses on examining terrorism, conflict, online extremism, and disinformation across ideologies and contexts. Over the past decade, his work has covered both the online and offline aspects of these international security challenges using a range of quantitative and qualitative methods

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Who is Broderick McDonald?

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Broderick McDonald is a researcher at the University of Oxford and Kings College London's International Center for the Study of Radicalisation with a decade of experience across government, academia, technology, and civil society. Broderick's writing and commentary has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Financial Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, BBC News, Al Jazeera, France24, L'Orient-Le Jour, The Economic Times, The Globe & Mail, The Australian, Prospect Magazine, Middle East Eye, Al Arabiya, Enab Baladi, CS Monitor, and The National News. Alongside his research, Broderick has provided expert analysis for a range of international news broadcasters including ABC News, BBC World News, BBC America, CBC News, Good Morning America, France24, and Al Jazeera News.

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Broderick is an Associate Fellow at Kings College London's International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) and a postgraduate researcher at the University of Oxford. Prior to this, he served as an Advisor in Parliament and as a researcher with the All Party Parliamentary Group for Genocide Prevention. Broderick was previously a Fellow with the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the Royal Society of the Arts. He previously lived in the Middle East and has conducted extensive interviews with armed combatants and foreign terrorist fighters (FTFs) and combatants from ISIS, HTS, and other armed groups. Broderick has conducted fieldwork across the Middle East and Central Asia, including Jordan, Lebanon, Türkiye, Uzbekistan and organised Large-N quantitative and qualitative research projects in Syria. He currently serves on the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT)'s Independent Advisory Committee, the Aspen Institute UK's RLF Advisory Board, and the GLOCA Board of Advisors. Alongside his research, Broderick has advised policymakers, parliamentarians, intelligence agencies, international prosecutors, NGOs, social media platforms, and AI developers on emerging technologies and security threats from terrorist & extremist entities, non-state actors, and hostile foreign states.

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Alongside this, he collaborates with industry and stakeholders to better understand and counter emerging threats and online harms stemming from armed conflict, terrorism, and extremism. 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 iis an Associate Member of Chatham House in London.