Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta is Head of Public Policy at the Open Data Institute.
Prior to joining the ODI in September 2020, Milly was Senior Policy Adviser at the Royal Society, the independent scientific academy of the UK, where she led the Society’s policy programme on Data and Digital Disruption including projects on data governance, data science skills, and privacy enhancing technologies.
Milly was previously Programme Manager at the Alan Turing Institute, Britain’s national institute for data science and AI, where she managed the Turing’s research partnership programmes in Health and in Finance/Economic Data Science. She has also worked at the Medical Research Council, and served on an Advisory Group at Chatham House. She holds degrees in philosophy from Oxford, Cambridge and York (UK).
Find Milly on Twitter: @TechMilly
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Blog 19/02/2021
Data institutions in low- and middle-income countries
- Data infrastructure
- Geospatial data and mapping
- Policy
- Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
- Jack Hardinges
- Mahad Alassow
- Mark Boyd
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Blog 17/02/2021
Think global, act local: highlights from our spring 2021 policy plans
- Covid-19
- Data infrastructure
- Policy
- Cities
- Alan Walker
- Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
- Emily Sinclair
- Gavin Freeguard
- Jeni Tennison
- Mahad Alassow
- Mark Boyd
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Blog, News 02/02/2021
The ODI responds to the European Data Governance Act consultation
- Policy
- Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
- Jack Hardinges
- Mark Boyd
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Blog, News 01/02/2021
The ODI's written evidence for APPG on Artificial Intelligence
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Policy
- Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
- Jack Hardinges
- Jeni Tennison
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Case study, Case study [Luminate] 14/01/2021
Case study: The ODI Writers' Fund for Black History Month 2020
- Arts, culture and heritage
- Carrie Brindle
- Denise Sanderson-Estcourt (she/her)
- Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
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Article 10/01/2021
Data enabled cities
- Data infrastructure
- Open standards and open APIs
- Cities
- Ben Snaith
- Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
- Emily Sinclair
- James Maddison
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Blog 25/11/2020
The UK National Data Strategy 2020: engaging for resilience
- Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
- Fionntán O'Donnell
- Jack Hardinges
- Olivier Thereaux
- Orsola De Marco
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Blog 23/11/2020
The UK National Data Strategy 2020: skills that count
- Dr Dave Tarrant
- Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
- Lucy Knight
- Stuart Coleman
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Blog 20/11/2020
The UK National Data Strategy 2020: innovation with impact
- Alan Walker
- Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
- Josh D'Addario
- Orsola De Marco
- Pauline L’Hénaff
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Blog 17/11/2020
The UK National Data Strategy 2020: doing data ethically
- Data ethics and privacy
- Policy
- Dr Dave Tarrant
- Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
- Fionntán O'Donnell
- Hannah Redler Hawes
- Lucy Knight
- Olivier Thereaux
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Blog 27/10/2020
The UK National Data Strategy 2020: equity, fairness and rights
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Innovation
- Policy
- Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
- Josh D'Addario
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Blog 19/10/2020
The UK National Data Strategy 2020: data as infrastructure, data for infrastructure
- Deborah Yates
- Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
- Elea Himmelsbach
- Hannah Foulds
- Olivier Thereaux
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Current project
The UK National Data Strategy 2020
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Policy
- Science and research
- Skills and literacy
- Alan Walker
- Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
- Emily Sinclair
- Jeni Tennison
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Blog, News 15/09/2020
ODI Writers' Fund for Black History Month 2020
- Arts, culture and heritage
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Policy
- Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
- Sir Nigel Shadbolt