David Eaves is Associate Professor of Digital Government and Co-Deputy Director of the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at University College London. David’s courses focus on the governance of digital public infrastructure and the minimum viable knowledge public administrators need on technology to be effective in a digital era. He is a co-founder of Teaching Public Service in a Digital Age, which seeks to increase the number of public servants receiving digital era public administration skills.
A believer in public entrepreneurship David has helped train numerous cohorts of Code for America fellows, White House Presidential Innovation Fellows and Code for Canada Fellows. He was also co-founder and CEO of ReCollect, a software company used which grew to be adopted by hundreds of municipalities to help encourage recycling and better manage their waste streams before being acquired in 2021.
David completed his Masters of Philosophy in International Relations at Oxford University, and an undergraduate degree (honors) from Queen's University in Canada. Prior to joining the IIPP David was a Lecturer of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School from 2016-2021.
