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Helen Margetts is a leading scholar at the intersection of digital governance, artificial intelligence, and public administration, whose work has fundamentally shaped how researchers and policymakers understand the role of technology in modern government. Best known for her development and ongoing refinement of the Digital Era Governance (DEG) framework, Margetts has traced the evolution of government digitalization from early e-government initiatives through to today's data science and AI-driven transformation — work that has attracted over 200 citations across her most influential papers alone. Her 2023 examination of what she terms the "third wave" of digital era governance identifies four critical macro-themes through which AI and data science methodologies are reshaping public institutions, offering one of the most comprehensive frameworks available for analyzing this rapidly evolving landscape. Equally significant is her unified framework for AI in government, which addresses urgent questions of standards, epistemic criteria, and operational accountability for AI deployment in public sector contexts. Her 2015 design principles for "essentially digital governance" demonstrated remarkable prescience, anticipating the data-rich environments governments now inhabit. Margetts' scholarship provides indispensable theoretical grounding for students and practitioners navigating the profound challenges of governing in the age of artificial intelligence.