Cailean Osborne is a senior researcher at the Linux Foundation, who leads strategic research on open source AI. Cailean has a PhD in Social Data Science from the University of Oxford, where he researched commercial interests and collaboration dynamics in open source AI developer communities, and in 2023-2024 he was a visiting researcher at Peking University’s Open Source Software Data Analytics Lab. Previously, Cailean worked in AI policy at the UK Government and was a UK government delegate at the OECD’s Global Partnership on AI and the Council of Europe’s Committee on AI. Cailean is based in Berlin, Germany.