Tony Ageh OBE

Tony Ageh is Executive Director of dotPublic, a research and civic infrastructure project developing enforceable standards and a new top-level domain for public-serving institutions, anchored at Trinity College Dublin, where he is also Adjunct Assistant Professor.

He has held senior leadership roles across media, libraries, and digital innovation in the United Kingdom and the United States. At the BBC he led the team that created BBC iPlayer and later served as Controller of Archive Development, where he oversaw the corporation's archive strategy. He has also held senior creative and digital leadership roles at the Guardian and Observer newspapers. He subsequently served as Chief Digital Officer at the New York Public Library, where he led major programmes in digitisation, access, and public engagement.

His work focuses on the intersection of public institutions, technology, and access to knowledge. Through dotPublic, he is developing a model for trusted, publicly governed digital infrastructure, working with partners across academia, civil society, and the cultural sector. He co-leads the dotPublic research programme at Trinity College Dublin's ADAPT Centre with Professor Dave Lewis.

He has contributed to a range of initiatives in digital public space, archives, and knowledge preservation, and has advised institutions in the UK, Europe, and North America on strategy and governance in the digital age. He was awarded an OBE in 2015 for services to broadcasting.