About the IAPP

Kate Jones is the Chief Executive Officer of the Digital Regulatory Cooperation Forum (DRCF). Kate leads this innovative team, working to increase and deepen coordination between regulators of online services and technology for the benefit of both businesses and their customers.

Before joining the DRCF, Jones was an expert consultant and researcher on the governance of emerging technologies, with particular regard to human rights law, public international law and diplomacy. She was an Associate Fellow with the International Law Programme at Chatham House, Senior Associate with Oxford Information Labs, and member of the advisory board of an AI ethics company. She has published and spoken widely on aspects of national and international tech governance, with specialisms in artificial intelligence, disinformation and foreign interference, and the role of technical standards.

In her work, Jones brings to bear her many years of experience as a legal adviser and diplomat with the U.K. Foreign and Commonwealth Office, including as Legal Adviser to the U.K. Mission to the United Nations in Geneva and U.K. Deputy Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. She also draws on her experience of leadership, skills and technical expertise as Director of Oxford University’s Diplomatic Studies Programme and as Course Director and Advisory Board member of the Centre for Political and Diplomatic Studies. Jones took her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in law at the University of Oxford and qualified as a U.K. solicitor at Norton Rose.