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The DRCF is delighted to announce Kate Jones as its new Chief Executive. Kate joins the forum with a wealth of experience ranging from technology governance to international law, and replaces Gill Whitehead, who has taken up a new role as Ofcom’s Group Director for Online Safety.

Starting her new role on 2 May 2023, Kate will support DRCF members in ensuring the digital landscape is regulated effectively, efficiently and coherently. She will also work closely with each member organisation to develop joined-up approaches and ensure that regulatory policy is developed in a responsive, holistic way.

Kate Jones said: “Regulation of emerging technologies is one of the most important challenges of our time. I am very much looking forward to continuing the DRCF’s excellent work with the four member regulators to promote a coherent and collaborative regulatory landscape.”

Kate is a technology governance expert who has published in various fields including AI governance; disinformation and foreign interference; technical standards; digital platforms and self-regulation. She has worked with a range of governments, industry representatives and civil society in these fields.

In addition, Kate’s background is as an international and human rights lawyer and diplomat with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, and then as Director of the Diplomatic Studies Programme at Oxford University. Her current affiliations include Associate Fellow at Chatham House and Senior Associate, Governance, Human Rights and Diplomacy at Oxford Information Labs.