Sophia is the Group Manager for Artificial Intelligence Policy at the ICO, leading the UK data protection authority’s team of AI policy and technology experts. Her portfolio covers areas such as strategic thinking on AI for the organisation, policy on emerging issues such as generative AI, advising on high-impact regulatory positions such as automated decision-making and cross-regulatory coordination.

She is the ICO sponsor at the Artificial Intelligence workstream of the Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum (DRCF) and has represented the ICO at a variety of international fora. Prior to the ICO Sophia was an Academy Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) and a journalist.