Nicholas Gates

Nicholas ('Nick‘) Gates is a Senior Policy Advisor at OFE, where he leads OFE’s work on the NGI Commons and European Open Source Academy initiatives and coordinates its research programme. Nick is an expert in open technologies and digital government policy and research, particularly around open source, public goods, public financial management, and digital service delivery. Nick enjoys supporting development partners, governments, and international organisations to deliver on their research, advocacy and convening agendas by using applied research to support policy development around best practices in the use of technology for public good, particularly in the public sector. Prior to joining OFE, Nick helped launch the Digital Public Finance Hub, a new learning initiative around the digital transformation of public finance, as a consultant at Public Digital.