Jenifer Fays Alys Tennison OBE (born 1972)[1] is a British software engineer and consultant who co-chairs the data governance working group within the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI).

She also serves on the board of directors of Creative Commons, the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD) and the information law and policy centre of the School of Advanced Study (SAS) at the University of London.

[4][5] Tennison was born in Cambridge, England[6] and educated at the University of Nottingham gaining a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology in 1994[7][8] and a PhD in collaborative ontology development in 1999,[2] supervised by Nigel Shadbolt.

[9] Tennison has authored or co-authored papers[10][11][12][13] on XSLT,[14] XML,[15] structured data[16] and knowledge bases.

Tennison was appointed Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE)[5] in the 2014 New Year Honours[5][27] for services to Technology and Open Data.