Tech Policy Expertise: Misinformation & information integrity

  • Gisella Lomax

    Gisella Lomax, Senior Advisor on Digital Protection: Information Integrity, United Nations Refugee Agency

    Gisella has worked for the United Nations for 15 years in many countries around the world, on issues ranging from peace-talks to human rights and climate change. She currently works for UNHCR, one of the biggest humanitarian agencies, helping people who have been forced to flee their homes due to persecution, war and conflict. Gisella specializes in online safety, responding to technology and digital risks such as hate speech, disinformation, and trusted information in the age of Artificial Intelligence.

    Prior to joining the UN, Gisella’s first career was in journalism, reporting on news and culture for national and international media companies. She grew up in Manchester in the north of England, studied in Leeds, and later in Austria as part of the European Union’s Erasmus Programme, and has been fortunate to live and work in many countries around the world.

  • Navneet Gidda

    Navneet is a multidisciplinary strategic communications expert. She has led political communications strategies, across digital and traditional media, for charities, elected representatives, and think tanks.

    Navneet’s work and personal ethos are influenced by the history of art, literature, and moral philosophy. She is interested in narrative in public policy, and particularly how absurd and dystopian stories inform how governments imagine the future. Navneet’s current research interests lie in the realm of emerging AI technologies, corporate misconduct, and the global governance of big tech. In her work, she considers how nations can regulate – and provide new public imaginaries – about AI technologies that are disrupting the way we live and threatening our civil liberties.

    Navneet’s work bridges the gap between communications, governance, and the law to push back against big tech’s visions of the future, and produce tech policy that truly works for people.

  • Francesca Scapolo

  • Azzurra Moores

    Azzurra is the Policy Lead at Full Fact, the UK’s independent fact checking organisation. Azzurra joined Full Fact in January 2024 to lead on policy and engagement in Parliament, focusing on online misinformation and honesty in politics and became Policy Lead in August 2024. Azzurra is an international campaigner with a background in free expression and prior to joining Full Fact she led the UK advocacy work of Reporters Without Borders (RSF).