Tech Policy Expertise: Inclusion & diversity

  • Eleanor Sarpong

    Eleanor Sarpong is Founder and Managing Partner of Impact Afrique Global Partners, a London based but Africa focussed boutique consulting firm, where she advises governments, businesses and development partners on digital transformation, telecommunications policy, infrastructure investment and regulatory strategy across emerging markets. She brings more than two decades of global experience working in the private sector, international development and public policy, with a current focus on Sub-Saharan Africa.

    Eleanor has held senior leadership roles as Director for Policy and Advocacy, Digital Inclusion at the GSMA, Director of Public Policy at the Global Digital Inclusion Partnership and Deputy Executive Director at the Alliance for Affordable Internet, where she spearheaded public policy and advocacy efforts with more than 21 governments and multilateral agencies. She has partnered with organisations including the European Union, Smart Africa, World Bank, USAID, ITU, UNESCO, UNESCAP and the OECD. Earlier in her career, she built MTN Ghana’s Government and Regulatory Function, leading efforts to secure 3G and 4G licences and regulatory engagements on mobile money, SIM registration and data-centre rollouts.

    She has also consulted for Stantec, developing a model on Open Internet skills, and advised the European Investment Bank on ICT lending policies for developing countries. She has also consulted for the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation. Eleanor holds an MBA from Warwick Business School, where she was a Chevening Scholar, and certificates in Public Policy Analysis from the London School of Economics and Implementing Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education.

  • Nicole Greene

    Nicole Greene is a GovTech communications strategist with over 25 years’ experience bridging technical infrastructure expertise with strategic communications across government, financial services, and international development. She specialises in translating complex ICT standards and emerging technologies into actionable adoption narratives – from citizens to C-suite executives to international partners.

    As Strategic Advisor to the CEO at Trinidad and Tobago’s National ICT Company (iGovTT), Nicole led the communications strategy for the country’s Digital Public Infrastructure implementations – including its digital identity and credential-verification solution – aligned with the 50-in-5 campaign and South-South cooperation models, working alongside partners including CDPI, Co-Develop, UNDP and MOSIP. She architected the launch campaign for “Anansi,” the country’s AI Digital Assistant, which won the IDB Pr.A.I.S.E. People’s Choice Award for Citizen Experience in 2025, and served as Secretary of its Data Governance Committee.

    Nicole’s crisis communications counsel was called upon during Trinidad and Tobago’s COVID-19 pandemic response, including a strategic overhaul of the National COVID-19 Dashboard. She also supported the country’s first National CyberDrill – a milestone in national cybersecurity capacity- and community-building at a moment when Caribbean digital economies are accelerating and cross-border collaboration is increasingly critical.

    Nicole publishes regularly on digital public infrastructure and technology adoption, and holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Trinity College, Hartford, CT.

  • Alieda Moore-Berry

    Alieda Moore-Berry is a leading voice at the intersection of digital finance, public policy and engagement, with over a decade of experience influencing financial policy in the UK and Europe. As Senior Vice President of Government Affairs and Digital Advocacy at Citibank, she leads high-stakes advocacy and policy strategy shaping the future of banking and digital finance.

    Previously at the Bank of England, Alieda worked at the forefront of digital finance policy, navigating the regulatory challenges of financial innovation from inside one of the world’s most influential central banks. Her experience across both public and private sectors gives her a distinctive ability to bridge regulatory ambition with real-world developments.

    Recognised for her ability to translate complex policy issues into accessible messages for diverse audiences, Alieda is a compelling public speaker who regularly addresses international forums on digital finance, leadership and engagement. She is a passionate advocate for inclusive leadership and fostering diverse cultures, and has been recognised as a Top 50 EMpower Future Leader for her impact in this space.

  • Venus Simbulan

    Venus Simbulan-Fenwick is Associate Vice President of Strategic Business Development at Mastek, where she leads growth, strategic partnerships and major public sector engagement across UK health and government. With 20 years’ experience in healthtech, she works at the intersection of technology, public policy and commercial strategy, shaping large-scale digital health and data transformation programmes.

    Her background spans senior leadership roles in health technology and consulting, alongside extensive experience in public affairs, government engagement and policy alignment within the NHS and wider UK public sector. Venus combines a science background with hands-on commercial delivery to bridge policy ambition and operational reality across the technology sector.

  • Rose Beaumont

    Rose Beaumont is a highly accomplished senior executive with a distinguished career spanning technology, social media, FinTech & Payments, and entertainment. Having held leadership positions at some of the world’s most influential global brands, she brings exceptional expertise in steering complex multinational teams and shaping strategies that thrive at the intersection of innovation, policy & regulation and purpose.

    With decades of experience advising senior leadership teams, she has become a trusted voice in navigating the global landscape of policy and regulation.

    She is a passionate champion of women in leadership and a tireless advocate for aligning business success with social impact.

    She is adept at driving advocacy at the highest levels, ensuring businesses are not just participants but shapers of the global dialogue on technology, commerce and culture.

  • Kate Devlin

    Kate Devlin is Professor of Artificial Intelligence & Society in the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London. She is an interdisciplinary computer scientist investigating how people interact with and react to technologies, both past and future. Kate is the author of Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots (Bloomsbury, 2018), which examines the ethical and social implications of technology and intimacy. She is a co-investigator on the UKRI- funded Responsible AI UK (RAi UK) programme ­– a network that conducts and funds research into AI to benefit people, communities and society. She is a board member of the Open Rights Group and a Patron of Humanists UK.

  • Pooja Patel

    Pooja is a dedicated and focused professional with proven experience working in high-profile government policy, analysis, and intelligence.

    Specific analytical and policy expertise includes key global issues, such as cyber, synthetic biology, AI, and Large Language Models and regional expertise in Middle East and Asia.

    Pooja has been working in the Science and Tech fields for the last 7 years, and is passionate about bringing more women of colour into leadership roles in tech, cyber, and security professions

  • Claire Spiller

    I am an advocate for creating fair access to tech careers and supporting people to reach their potential. Over the last twenty years, I have designed and managed re-skilling programmes, including those for marginalised groups of society. I support females, refugees, ex-offenders, people with disabilities and other people across our communities.

    Now I bridge the gap between education and paid employment, by providing work placements at a Tech For Good, non-profit, The Cloud Crew CIC. By populating CV’s with AI and digital transformation projects, more under-represented people stand out in recruitment processes.

    Through my work on the Digital Skills Council (DiSC) I have seen first-hand how policies could be better aligned and how initiatives could benefit from having more consistent quality-control measures across counties.

    Through my work at AWS, rolling out an EMEA-wide tech re-skilling programme, I am passionate about sharing ideas and concepts across boarders. Ideas shaped in a different country, based on the context of their economic climate, industry needs and socio-economic requirements, can often be translated into other countries and cultures, bringing a fresh perspective to shared challenges.

    I am an experienced speaker on topics such as diversity in tech, purposeful leadership and skills-based hiring and have contributed to articles, studies and interviews on the subjects.

  • Sahar Danesh

    Sahar Danesh is the Senior Government Engagement Manager at BSI, the UK’s National Standards Body. As a key member of BSI’s Standards Policy team, she leads engagement with government on digital and technology policy, identifying opportunities where standardization can deliver tangible benefits for UK businesses and society.

    Sahar plays a central role in defining the governance frameworks of the future, ensuring that technology—especially AI —is developed, implemented, and adopted in ways that is safe, transparent, and inclusive. Her work focuses on embedding transparency and public trust at the heart of technological progress, so that innovation benefits everyone and no community is left behind.

    A Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the IET, Sahar’s career spans private consultancy, central government policy, and leadership roles in professional institutions such as The Royal Academy of Engineering and the Institution of Engineering and Technology. Her fellowship reflects her outstanding contributions to engineering, tech policy, and governance.

  • Gisella Lomax

    Gisella Lomax is the Senior Advisor on Information Integrity at UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, leading a ‘Digital Protection’ capacity to address the harmful impact of information risks such as misinformation, disinformation and hate speech on refugees and people forced to flee, and on humanitarian action.

    Following a career in journalism with global media organisations, Gisella joined the UN in 2011: a year of global disruption to the information ecosystem driven by digital platforms. She has worked in partnerships, external engagement, digital and strategic communications roles across various parts of UN, including on climate action, human rights, peace-building, disarmament, and trade and development.