
Research Interests
Baroness Kidron is a leading voice on children’s rights in the digital environment and a global authority on digital regulation and accountability. She has played a determinative role in establishing standards for online safety and privacy across the world.
Baroness Kidron sits as a crossbench peer in the UK’s House of Lords. She is an advisor to the Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford, a Commissioner on the UN Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development and an expert advisor for the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence. She is a Visiting Professor of Practice at the London School of Economics, where she chairs the research centre Digital Futures for Children, and is a Fellow in the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford.
For 30 years, Kidron was an award-winning film director and producer. In 2006, she co-founded the charity Filmclub (now Into Film), and in 2012 founded the children’s online rights charity 5Rights Foundation.