Section 152 of the Online Safety Act 2023 (the ‘Act’) requires Ofcom to establish and maintain an advisory Committee. The Committee is to consist of a chair appointed by Ofcom, and such number of other members appointed by the Ofcom Board as Ofcom considers appropriate.
The function of the Committee is to provide advice to Ofcom on those matters specified in section 152(4) of the Act.
Friday 16 May 2025
The Committee has not yet met.
Lord Allan of Hallam (Chair)
Non-executive member of Ofcom Board.
Richard has nearly 30 years of experience in the development of communications and technology policy. Since 2010 he has been an unelected Member of the House of Lords, after he was created a life peer as Baron Allan of Hallam, of Ecclesall in the county of South Yorkshire. He has been a non-affiliated member since 2 October 2024 and was previously affiliated to the Liberal Democrat party.
He started his professional career with the NHS, as a Systems Developer, building computer networks and information systems for Avon FHSA. Between 1997-2005 he was the Member of Parliament for Sheffield Hallam, also holding the position of Chair of the Information Select Committee until 2001. He joined Cisco Systems in 2005, holding the role of Director Public Policy until 2009, during which he led company work on all telecoms policy issues with politicians and regulators. Then between 2009-2019 he worked at Facebook (now Meta) as VP Public Policy; leading a team of 70+ policy experts across EMEA, acting as a senior decision maker on sensitive policy questions.
He currently holds Non-Executive Board roles with Community Interest Companies New Automotive and the Centre for Public Data. Former Non-Executive roles include being a Board Member at the European Digital Media Observatory, Chair of the Power of Media Taskforce and a Board Member at the Sheffield City Trust.
Elisabeth Costa
Elisabeth Costa is the Chief of Innovation and Partnerships at the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT), a global research and innovation consultancy. She leads BIT’s global partnerships and develops emerging areas of expertise - especially how we make decisions in online environments and the intersection of AI and human behaviour.
Elisabeth brings a multidisciplinary background in behavioural science, regulation, evaluation and policy development to the Committee. Since joining BIT in 2015, she has led cutting-edge research on the application of behavioural science to regulation, co-authoring foundational papers on consumer decision-making and the behavioural underpinnings of online harms. Elisabeth has worked with regulators and partners around the world to enhance online safety, understand the psychological factors affecting susceptibility to a range of online harms, and increase resilience to disinformation and misinformation.
Prior to her current role, Elisabeth served as Managing Director of the Behavioural Insights Team in the United Kingdom and held senior positions at the Australian Treasury.
Elisabeth maintains an academic appointment as Senior Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and completed her postgraduate studies at Harvard Law School.
Elisabeth joined the Committee on 1 May 2025 and her appointment runs until 30 April 2028.
Jeffrey Howard
Jeffrey Howard is Professor of Political Philosophy & Public Policy at University College London. He is the director of UCL’s Digital Speech Lab, which hosts research projects on the proper governance of online communications. He is also Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Ethics in AI at Oxford University. He has published widely on freedom of expression, social media, and democracy, among other topics.
Jeffrey is a UKRI Future Leader Fellow, BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker, British Academy Rising Star, and recipient of the Berger Memorial Prize from the American Philosophical Association. His book on free speech in the digital age is forthcoming with Princeton University Press. He earned his DPhil from Oxford University and AB from Harvard University.
Jeffrey joined the Committee on 1 May 2025 and his appointment runs until 30 April 2028.
Will Moy
Will Moy is Chief Executive of the Campbell Collaboration, an international social science research network that uses scientific methods to synthesise all of the evidence on important policy issues. It aims to make using state of the art social science evidence as natural as looking up a word in the dictionary.
Before joining the Campbell Collaboration he led the UK charity Full Fact, promoting trustworthy evidence use in public life, from 2010 to 2023. Full Fact’s fact checking and other work was used by tens of millions of people including policy makers, the media, and major internet companies. Working with international partners they built AI tools that have gone on to be used in more than forty countries worldwide.
He is a visiting senior research fellow at the Policy Institute at King’s College London and a visiting Gwilym Gibbon research fellow at Nuffield College Oxford.
Will joined the Committee on 1 May 2025 and his appointment runs until 30 April 2028.
Mark Scott
Mark Scott is a senior resident fellow at the Digital Forensic Research Lab’s (DFRLab) Democracy + Tech Initiative within the Atlantic Council Technology Programs. In this role, he is engaged in expanding the Initiative’s ongoing work around comparative digital policy, regulation, and governance. He currently sits on the international advisory board of RegulAite, a project at the University of Amsterdam dedicated to artificial intelligence policymaking. He is also a research fellow at the Centre for Digital Governance at the Hertie School in Berlin. Prior to joining the Atlantic Council, Scott was the chief technology correspondent for Politico. Previously, Scott spent almost a decade as a correspondent for the New York Times.
Mark joined the Committee on 1 May 2025 and his appointment runs until 30 April 2028.
Devika Shanker-Grandpierre
Devika Shanker-Grandpierre is a strategic advisor specialising in helping global organisations navigate technology strategy, manage risks, and create value. She has held leadership roles in the technology sector, where she led globally distributed organisations focused on risk management and platform integrity. Her work has included developing long-term strategies to address online harms, scaling operational capabilities across international markets, and strengthening transparency and organisational accountability in complex digital environments.
Devika’s earlier experience includes roles in the financial services sector, where she led initiatives in fraud detection and risk mitigation. She is a Thematic Panel Member for the EU Knowledge Hub on Prevention of Radicalisation, which focuses on bolstering the EU’s efforts against radicalisation leading to violent extremism and terrorism.
Devika is also a contributing author to the Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET), where her insights connect the dots between historical perspectives, contemporary technological advancements, and the governance strategies necessary to minimise societal harm. She currently serves as a Non-Executive Director of the Irish National Youth Ballet. Devika holds an MBA from Symbiosis International University.
Devika joined the Committee on 1 May 2025 and her appointment runs until 30 April 2028.
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