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Baroness Beeban Kidron

Roles and subjects

Supernumerary Fellow

Contact

kidronb@parliament.uk

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, an expert advisor for the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence, and Founder and Chair of 5Rights Foundation. She is a Visiting Professor of Practice at the London School of Economics, where she chairs the research centre Digital Futures for Children, and a Fellow in the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford.

Before being appointed to the Lords she was an award-winning film director and co-founder of the charity Filmclub (now Into Film).