Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship

Pauline Neville-Jones is a Conservative member of the House of Lords where she sits on the Science and Technology Committee.

She began work in the Diplomatic Service serving in, among other places, Washington, the European Commission, as Head of the Policy Planning staff, Chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee and Bonn. She took part in the negotiations leading to German Unification and was the negotiator for the UK of the Dayton Agreement on Bosnia.

Subsequently she worked in the City and, as Chairman, prepared the government owned technology company, QinetiQ, for IPO. She designed the National Security Council which came into operation in 2010 and served as Minister of State for Security and Counterterrorism in the coalition government under Prime Minister Cameron. She is active in cyber security and resilience.

She has been a BBC Governor and a member of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. She is an honorary fellow of Lady Margaret Hall Oxford and has honorary degrees from London, Lancaster and Open Universities. She is a Dame Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George, a Privy Councillor and a Chevalier of the Legion d’Honneur.

Dr Patricia M. Lewis is an independent expert on international security, focusing primarily on arms control and disarmament and technology.

Her previous roles included: Research Director, International Security at Chatham House in London; Deputy Director and Scientist-in-Residence at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies; Director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR); and Director of VERTIC in London.  Dr Lewis served on: the 2004-6 WMD Commission, chaired by Dr. Hans Blix; the 2010-2011 Advisory Panel on Future Priorities of the OPCW, chaired by Ambassador Rolf Ekeus; an Advisor to the 2008-10 International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (ICNND) chaired by Gareth Evans and Yoriko Kawaguchi; Commissioner on the 2014-2016 Global Commission on Internet Governance chaired by Carl Bildt. She is on the Governing Board of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), on the Space Advisory Board for the EU Special Envoy for Space in EEAS, and she is co-Chair of the Scientific Advisory Group for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).

She holds a BSc (Hons) in physics from Manchester University, a PhD in nuclear physics from Birmingham University and an Honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Warwick. She was a visiting lecturer in physics at Imperial College London and was an Elizabeth Poppleton Fellow at the Australian National University She is a dual national of the UK and Ireland. Dr Lewis is the recipient of the American Physical Society’s 2009 Joseph A. Burton Forum Award recognizing “outstanding contributions to the public understanding or resolution of physics” and a recipient of Ireland’s Presidential Distinguished Service Award in 2023.

Lucas Kello is Associate Professor of International Relations in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. He is the Director of the Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research, a University-wide initiative sponsored by the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

His research focuses on technology and global affairs, with a special emphasis on the evolving relationship between government and private industry in the development of advanced and disruptive technologies. His first book, The Virtual Weapon and International Order (Yale University Press, 2017), analysed the implications of cyberspace for interstate strategic stability. The book has been translated into Arabic, Korean, and Greek. His second book, Striking Back: The End of Peace in Cyberspace and How to Restore It (Yale University Press, 2022), examined shortcomings in prevailing strategies to prevent or reduce the intensity of cyber conflict and presented a new approach to achieving order in cyberspace. The work was named one of the best new books by the Financial Times and Nature.

Paul started as Provost of The Queen’s College Oxford in August 2025.

Before that he was director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies for 15 years, following periods as chief economist at the Department for Education and director of public spending at HM Treasury.

He is a columnist for The Times, and is a regular contributor to other broadcast and print media. He is a visiting professor at UCL and at York University.

Paul published the Sunday Times bestseller Follow the Money in 2023. He was for 11 years a member of the UK Climate Change Committee, and has served on the council of the ESRC and of the Royal Economic Society.

Paul has also for the last five years been helping to lead the IFS Deaton review of inequalities, and will be lead author of a book based on this study which is due to be published in 2026.

Nick Macpherson is Chairman of C Hoare & Co, Britain’s oldest bank, and of the Scottish American Investment Company. He is a Visiting Professor at King’s College London and sits as a cross-bench peer in the House of Lords. He was Permanent Secretary to H M Treasury from 2005 to 2016, serving three Chancellors and leading the department through the financial and wider economic crisis which began in 2007. Prior to becoming Permanent Secretary, he ran the spending and tax sides of the Treasury. In the mid 1990s, he was Principal Private Secretary to Kenneth Clarke and Gordon Brown.

Michael McMahon is Professor of Economics at University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow at St Hugh’s College. He previously worked at Warwick University and has also taught courses at INSEAD, NYU, Chicago Booth, Stanford, LBS and LSE. He has delivered capacity building courses throughout Asia with the IMF’s Singapore Training Institute. He worked at the Bank of England for many years. Between April 2019 and December 2025, he served as a Council member of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, including a period as Chair of the Council.

He is a research fellow of the CEPR and was Director of their Research Policy Network on Central Bank Communication. He was Deputy Director of Nuffield Centre for Applied Macro Policy (NuCaMP). He was also affiliated with LSE’s Centre for Macroeconomics where he previously co-edited the CfM Survey. He was a member of the Royal Economic Society (RES) Council, and served as the Conference Secretary on the Executive Committee. He previously served as Deputy Programme Chair for the 2017 RES Annual Conference. He was an Economics Network advisory board member (2006-2011), Treasurer of the MMF Research Group (2016-2018) and was previously Director of Impact at CAGE, Warwick (2016-2019).

His interests lie in macroeconomics of monetary economics, fiscal policy, business cycles, inventories and applied econometrics. A key feature of his recent research is the use of interdisciplinary, data science techniques to understand communication and deliberation in central banks. His research has been published in journals including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Monetary Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of International Economics and numerous others.

He holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from Trinity College Dublin, and MSc, MRes, and PhD degrees in Economics from the London School of Economics.

Nusrat Ghani is the Conservative MP for Sussex Weald. In 2015 Nusrat made history as the first female Muslim MP ever to be elected as a Conservative and remains a minority of one in her party.

In July 2024, Nusrat was elected Chairman of Ways and Means, becoming only the second woman to hold the post and the first person of colour to serve as Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons. In this role, she chairs daily debates in the Chamber and holds senior responsibilities, including Chair of the Speaker’s AI Steering Group.

Nusrat migrated to the UK along with her family and not only is she the first female to attend University but she is also the first girl to attend school. Her mother and grandmother are illiterate as they were denied access to formal education.

As an MP, Nusrat has served on the Business, Home Affairs and Foreign Affairs Select Committees and as rapporteur for NATO’s Parliamentary Assembly Science and Technology Committee. She has led major inquiries into antisemitism, child sexual abuse, violent extremism and Uyghur forced labour, resulting in sanctions against her by both China and Russia—the only woman in Parliament to be sanctioned by two countries.

She became the first female Muslim Minister in 2018 and has since served in senior ministerial roles across transport, industry, economic security and foreign affairs, including as Minister of State for Europe at the FCDO.

Ignacio Cofone is Professor of Law and Regulation of AI, working at the Faculty of Law and the Institute for Ethics in AI, and a governing body fellow of Reuben College. He is also an affiliated fellow of the Yale Law School Information Society Project and the Quebec AI Institute. Before joining Oxford, he was the Canada Research Chair in AI Law and Data Governance at McGill University.

Ignacio’s research examines how law and regulation should respond to social and economic changes driven by AI; in particular how to govern harms produced by machine inferences. His recent book, The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy (CUP 2023), argues that AI requires restructuring privacy and data protection law based on duties of non-exploitation because basing these bodies of law on individual control has become ineffective. His current research projects examine how to prevent and remedy nonmaterial and relational AI harms, and on using comparative analysis to design regulatory frameworks that promote accountable AI. Updated details on his publications are available on SSRN and Google Scholar.

Ignacio has been appointed for visiting teaching and research positions at NYU School of Law, Paris Panthéon-Assas, University of St Gallen, Bar-Ilan University, Tilburg University, and Torcuato Di Tella University and advises governments, courts, and other organizations on applying and adapting law and regulation to AI—such as by working with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada on an overhaul of Canadian privacy law. He obtained doctorates from Yale Law School (JSD) and from Hamburg University and Erasmus University Rotterdam (joint PhD, rer. pol.), as well as common law and civil law degrees. He is happy to supervise doctoral and postdoctoral candidates (who should apply directly through the graduate studies office without prior authorization), particularly from scholars with interdisciplinary or comparative law proposals related to the governance of inference-based harms.