Tech Policy Expertise: Platform regulation/content moderation

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Dina Rickman

    Senior director at GoFundMe, the world’s largest fundraising platform.
    Also launched two national news sites.

  • Rowan Wilkinson

    Rowan Wilkinson is a research associate in the Digital Society Programme, where she supports research on digital public infrastructure, the information space, tech sovereignty, and AI governance. Her expertise lies at the intersection of technology, humanitarianism, and international development.

    She previously worked with the UN and international NGOs on global development, crisis response, conflict, and human rights. Her previous research explored themes such as e-cash transfers in complex emergencies, and the use of technology to counter extremism.

  • 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.

  • 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.