Geography: Asia

  • Grace Nelson

    Grace is an Analyst in the team at Assembly. Her portfolio includes emerging issues in digital policymaking, such as online safety, digital competition and AI, as well as work across a range of consumer protection issues in telecoms markets.

    Prior to joining Assembly, Grace served as an aide in the United States Senate, leading outreach and engagement on issues including federal infrastructure investments and rural broadband. She holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh and a MSc in Media and Communication Governance from the London School of Economics.

  • Sofia Klymchuk

    Sofia Klymchuk is a Ukrainian AI policymaker, former civil servant and lawyer. She has been driving digital reforms in the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine for 5 years and currently she leads AI Diplomacy (OECD, CoE, EC, UNESCO) and builds AI tool for EU integration in the Ukrainian Government. She is leading bilateral negotiations with the EU on the AI Act, drafting Ukraine’s AI Strategy 2030, and advancing the sovereign LLM development, as well as AI GovTech solutions. In the Ministry she also previously led international cooperation and European integration of Ukraine into the EU Digital Single Market, roam-like-at-home regime and electronic communication sector reform. Some of Sofia’s large-scale projects include negotiating and drafting international digital treaties (with Latvia, Turkey, Canada, UK, UAE), cooperation on cross-border EU digital projects, funding and democratic resilience of Ukraine especially during wartime.
    As a female leader, she has empowered and collaborated with youth networks worldwide, raising issues on digital policies (she was a Head of the Chevening Society, and member of IRI GenDem, EDYN, AIESEC, ELSA, RUSI).
    She recently pursued her second master’s degree in Public Policy and Administration at LSE as a distinguished Chevening Scholar. This year she was nominated to become a GLOBSEC Young leader and Alpbach scholar.
    In her research she is focusing on the geopolitics of tech, intersection of digital policies, democracy, diplomacy and law.

  • Flora Coleman

    Flora Coleman is a seasoned global leader in public affairs, policy, and communications, with over a decade of experience shaping regulatory and reputational outcomes for some of the world’s most prominent fintech and technology firms. Most recently Director of Global Policy and Government Relations at Klarna, she led cross-functional teams on both sides of the Atlantic, driving strategy on AI, financial services, credit, and competition policy. Her earlier tenure at Wise saw her deliver a landmark win on cross-border payments regulation in the EU and spearhead the firm’s ESG and CSR agendas.
    Flora is widely recognised for her deep network and policy campaigns. She was recently named one of Europe’s top tech lobbyists by Sifted and has written on regulatory innovation in American Banker, arguing for proportionate frameworks for BNPL. She also addressed global consumer advocates on digital wallet safety at the 2023 Consumers International Summit in Nairobi.
    In addition to her executive roles, Flora serves as an Ambassador for InnovateHer, a Steering Board Member of the Startup Coalition, and an Industry Panel Member for Consumers International. Her portfolio reflects a consistent commitment to responsible innovation and stakeholder collaboration.
    With a track record across the UK, US, EU, and Australia, and a style that blends strategic clarity with delivery excellence, Flora brings valuable experience and perspective at the intersection of regulation, communications, and technology.

  • Lu Jackson

    Lu Jackson is the founder of Craic™, the global operating system for comedy and leader in comedy industry technologies, including Craic CRM and Craic Health, the pioneering Comedy-on-Prescription® platform. She is also the founder and chair of CRAFT, the newly established national comedy council and first policy-driven organisation of its kind for comedy.

    A digital media and tech innovator with over two decades in createch, Lu previously co-founded VidZone, the world’s first online and mobile music streaming subscription service and the first independent digital music distributor globally.

    Now driving a cultural shift in comedy, her mission is to position it as both entertainment and a force for social impact and wellbeing.

  • Kirsten Nelson-de Búrca

    Kirsten Nelson-de Búrca is a product policy manager at Mozilla, where she leads work on ads, age verification, and AI product launches globally – shaping how emerging technologies intersect with public interest and trust. With a background spanning global tech companies, startups, and the non-profit sector, she brings a rare blend of policy insight, operational know-how, and product expertise.

    Before joining Mozilla, she drove global digital policy engagement for a European scale-up, HelloFresh, and at Meta she launched trust & safety product lines and political advertising transparency tools in over 100 markets. She has also advised governments, political organisations, and civil society organisations (UN entities and EU institutions) on leveraging new technologies responsibly, and navigated the fast-moving fintech startup world from a regulatory risk perspective.

    A passionate advocate for responsible innovation, Kirsten speaks about the challenges and opportunities at the intersection of technology, policy, and society – with a focus on AI governance, online integrity (especially when it comes to elections, politics and social issues), and platform accountability.

  • Verona Johnstone-Hulse

    Verona is an experienced government affairs and policy professional currently leading public affairs for global cyber security firm NCC Group. In this role, she oversees NCC Group’s engagement with UK government and regulatory decision-makers and the wider policymaking community, against a backdrop of the increasing regulation of cyber resilience.

    Prior to joining NCC Group, she led in-house and consultancy public affairs programmes for a range of organisations – from FTSE100 to critical infrastructure, across many sectors of the economy.

  • Zoe Jay Hawkins

    Zoe is Co-Founder & Deputy Executive Director of the Tech Policy Design Institute (TPDi): Australia’s new independent non-partisan think tank dedicated to technology policy.

    Featured in the Australian Financial Review’s 2025 Women to Watch list, Zoe has experience leading international tech policy initiatives from government, big tech, academic and think tank perspectives. Zoe worked for the Australian government across communications, innovation, and foreign policy portfolios, as a ministerial adviser and in the public service. As a member of Amazon’s International Public Policy Team, Zoe drove whole of amazon digital policy initiatives and represented the company in international organisations.

    An engaging communicator, Zoe speaks internationally on tech policy issues and her work has been featured by The New York Times, TIME Magazine, The Economist, Forbes, POLITICO, and Vogue. Zoe is a Research Associate at the University of Oxford and an expert researcher for OECD.AI, having started her career at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.

    Zoe is passionate about helping bring the next generation of women up behind her by role modelling confident authentic leadership and actively mentoring young women across international relations and responsible tech policy in Australia and around the world.

  • Varuna Mangtani

  • Tammarrian Rogers

    Tammarrian has over 30 years of experience in the U.S. tech industry, contributing to engineering teams at General Motors, Apple, Microsoft, and Snap. She has led cross-functional teams in IT, Quality Engineering, Release Management, and Globalization.

    Tammarrian was recognized on Forbes’ lists of America’s Top 50 Women in Tech and the World’s Top 50 Women in Tech in 2018. She has also served on advisory councils and boards for organizations like Ada Developer’s Academy, NordVPN, and Northwest Tech Equity Initiative (NWTEI).
    In November 2021, Tammarrian left her role as Snap’s first Inclusive Engineering Director to focus on global collective healing leveraging tech as a catalyst. She founded Sarell with a vision to rebuild trust in tech by elevating social well-being as equally important as traditional success metrics.

    Believing that active listening is key to collective healing, Sarell partners with experts in tech, psychology, social science, and policy to create feedback mechanisms that integrate actionable social well-being metrics, prioritizing customer trust and collective wellness as central to financial success.

    Tammarrian enjoys traveling, hiking, dancing, other people’s pets, and (lots of) moments of stillness. She currently resides in London.

  • Sophie Mitchell