Eoin Mulgrew

Head of Digital Transformation at 10 Downing Street, where he leads innovation programmes including the No10 Innovation Fellowship and work to expand data science, AI, and technical capability across UK government.

UK Government Tests an Insurgent Model for In-House AI Delivery

Eoin Mulgrew of the Number 10 data science team argues that the UK state’s AI problem is less a shortage of use cases than a shortage of technical people with the access, mandate, and proximity to build inside government workflows. In a talk on the No. 10 Innovation Fellowship, he presents the model as a deliberate hack around normal civil-service constraints: market-rate pay, outside recruitment, a highly selective technical process, and authority to enter departments and ship tools that remain with the teams using them.

AI EngineerMay 18, 202614 min read