Nathan is a first-year DPhil candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), funded by the ESRC Grand Doctoral Union Training Partnership. His research examines the evolution of public procurement and contract regimes in the United States and the United Kingdom, focusing on how these systems influence the state’s capacity to adopt artificial intelligence. His work contributes to debates in public administration, political economy, and technology policy, and employs a mixed methodology, including archival, qualitative, and computational approaches.
He is a co-founder of the Digital State Forum and has worked as a Research Assistant at the Harvard Kennedy School. He has taught on the OII Master’s course and the Stanford Program in Oxford. Outside academia, he worked in early-stage startups, online safety, and public sector consulting focused on digital and AI procurement.
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