Mark Durkee is Head of Responsible Technology at the Government Digital Service, and was part of the team that created the recent Blueprint for Modern Digital Government. He leads a portfolio of work including the work on the Algorithmic Transparency Recording Standard, privacy enhancing technologies, and more broadly shaping how the public sector makes responsible use of AI and digital technologies. He previously led the Centre for Data Ethics & Innovation’s independent review into bias in algorithmic decision-making, and has spent over a decade working in a variety of technology strategy, architecture and cyber security roles within the UK government, and previously worked as a software engineer and completed a PhD in Theoretical Physics.