Tech Policy Expertise: Online safety

  • 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.

  • Eliz Peck

  • Carolina Saludes

    As a specialist in media and communications with a background in storytelling, I focus on AI and tech communications strategy, media engagement, and campaign advocacy. I currently work at Meta’s Oversight Board, supporting Board Member engagement with a broad range of policymakers, civil society, and the wider tech industry to better protect human rights online.

    Clarity in communications and bringing the right people around the table matter now more than ever, especially when it comes to the technologies we use daily. How we understand and negotiate their impact on society will shape our prosperity in future. I am excited to contribute to those conversations.

  • 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.

  • Amy Jordan

    Amy is Director of Strategy and Delivery in the Infrastructure and Connectivity Group at Ofcom. She previously set up Ofcom’s first tech policy team and spent a number of years leading the development of Ofcom’s approach to Online Safety policy and supervision. Prior to Ofcom she spent over a decade in the UK Goverment leading a range of national security, cyber and technology issues , and two years at the World Economic Forum’s Centre for Cybersecurity.

  • Beth Horn

    A tech sales & marketing leader, a proven strategist, a retail & ecommerce expert, and a sought-after keynote speaker on technology and digital media, with 20 years’ experience building high performing teams, delivering outstanding performance, developing innovative technologies, and inspiring an industry through growth and change.

    Currently leading Pinterest’s European arm, before that holding senior roles at Spotify & Meta.

  • Leonie Maria Tanczer

    Leonie Maria Tanczer is an Associate Professor in International Security and Emerging Technologies at University College London’s (UCL) Department of Computer Science and a grant holder of the prestigious UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship (FLF). She is part of UCL’s Information Security Research Group and initiated and heads the “Gender and Tech Research Lab”.

    Tanczer is also a member of the Advisory Council of the Open Rights Group (ORG), a Steering Committee member for the Offensive Cyber Working Group, and a voting member of the IEEE Working Group P2987 “Recommended Practice for Principles for Design and Operation Addressing Technology-Facilitated Inter-personal Control”.

    She was formerly an Association of British Science Writers (ABSW) Media Fellow at The Economist and a Fellow at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) in Berlin. Her research focuses on questions related to Internet security, and she is specifically interested in the intersection points of technology, cybersecurity and gender.

  • Sofia Marchetti

    Sofia is specialised in digital policy research and analysis. She currently works as a public affairs consultant at Inline Policy, providing policy analysis, monitoring and advice to clients in the tech space. She is particularly interested in online safety and digital platforms – studying at the London School of Economics (LSE) and University of Oxford, her research projects tackled online content moderation and democratisation of platform governance. She is familiar with both UK and EU regulation, having spent time in Brussels in the Media Intelligence Unit of the European Parliament.

  • Sharron Gunn

    Group Chief Executive Officer of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT – the professional membership body for the tech sector.

  • Jessica Figueras

    Jessica is the co-founder of CxB (Cyber Governance for Boards), a non-profit network that supports boards and non-executive directors to strengthen oversight of cyber security, and works with government to support developing cyber resilience regulation. She is also a non-executive director (Governor) at the University of Westminster.

    Previously she was Vice Chair and a Founding Trustee at the UK Cyber Security Council, where she worked with government on the development of a new self-regulatory regime for the cyber security profession. She was chief executive of Pionen, a cyber security firm working with government and critical national infrastructure, and Chair of Trustees at NCT, the UK’s largest charity for parents.

    As a technology strategist, she has worked extensively with government and the technology sector over decades, in recent years focusing on cyber security, digital trust and the role of tech in civil society. She has published extensive research on the application of emerging technologies in the public sector and regulated industries, and her technical advisory work directly informed the UK’s ground-breaking online safety legislation and wider regulatory regime.