Tech Policy Expertise: Platform regulation/content moderation

  • Sophie Nye

    I am currently working at Ofcom as chief-of-staff for the Head of Online Safety. Throughout my career, I’ve been driven by balancing safety and rights for children online. When first joining Ofcom, I led on key policy areas under the Protection of Children duties in the Online Safety Act. Prior to Ofcom, I studied at the Oxford Internet Institute, where I focused on youth political participation online, and the impacts of AI and data analytics tools on inequality. I started my career working with tech companies in a strategic insight consultancy.

  • 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.

  • Alisha Lewis

    Alisha Lewis is a digital strategy specialist for the Liberal Democrats, leading work on best practice and modern campaigning approaches for HQ. They bring almost ten years of experience in digital politics, from local government to the European Parliament, with a focus on how technology shapes behaviour, beliefs, and democracy.

    They hold a Master’s in AI Ethics and Society (MSt) from the University of Cambridge. Their research examined Cambridge Analytica, its role in the EU referendum, and its longer-term implications for public trust and political culture. They are currently conducting independent research into how lifestyle content on platforms like TikTok influences young women’s political socialisation — exploring the subtle ways skincare routines, fashion trends, dating advice, and online aesthetics are becoming pipelines into political worldviews.

    Their wider work covers microtargeting, disinformation, social media recommender systems, and the democratic risks posed by opaque algorithmic environments. Professionally, they are focused on how politics can be done better online: cutting through political fatigue, engaging voters honestly, and helping people navigate a landscape where understanding what’s true — and who to trust — is becoming ever more difficult.

  • Audrey Hingle

    I am the Editor-in-Chief of Internet Exchange, a publication dedicated to exploring internet governance, digital rights, and the intersection of technology and society. I also lead communications for the Prosocial Design Network and serve as an Internet Society Fellow. Based in London, I am passionate about how people interact with technology and the internet, and how those systems shape our lives for better (or worse!)

    I have over 15 years of experience in strategic communications and previously served as Head of Marketing at the Mozilla Foundation, an organisation focused on promoting internet health and trustworthy AI. I hold a master’s degree in Digital Culture and Technology from King’s College London and I am currently studying for an MSc in Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy at UCL.

  • Vicki Shotbolt

    Vicki Shotbolt is the founder and chief executive of Parent Zone. She has been mapping, understanding and responding to the impact of technology on family life for twenty years finding ways to unlock opportunity and minimise harms. She is the host of Tech Shock, a podcast that unpacks emerging issues and explores the latest research about the impact of digital on family life. She is co-chair of VoiceBox a global youth led platform, a trustee of the Media and Information Literacy Alliance and chair of a consortium exploring Child Financial Harms.

  • Deniz Atabey Alkan

    Trust & Safety leader with 10+ years driving user safety interventions across multiple global platforms, including Meta, Tiktok, Trustpilot and Bumble. I build policies, ML-powered enforcement systems, and set up global operational teams that protect billions of internet users.

    I love working on translating complex online challenges into scalable solutions spanning policy strategy, operational excellence, regulatory readiness, and cross-functional execution, while bringing together diverse, functional teams.

    My specific expertise is on setting up content moderation systems and teams from the ground up, ensuring scalable and fair moderation practices.

    Passionate about creating safer and better digital experiences, not only for users but also for the teams who make it possible.

  • Ella Shoup

    Ella is AI Policy Strategist for the Responsible AI team in GSK’s AIML department. She focuses on policy that can preserve AI’s scientific benefit while adequately managing its risks. Her work at GSK includes managing internal AI governance and analysing external AI policy that touch on science. She has a background in digital rights, during which time she worked to make content moderation appropriate for local contexts.

  • 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 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.

  • 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.