Speakers

Elizabeth Anderson is CEO of the Digital Poverty Alliance, which aims to end digital poverty in the UK once and for all.  Leading the DPA programmatic and operational team, she focusses across advocacy, community building and delivery work, talking to schools, industry partners, government leads, local authorities and other charities.  Elizabeth’s career has been focussed almost exclusively in the non profit sector, working in areas including education, disadvantage and healthcare, focussing on strategic development, governance and stakeholder engagement to create social change. She was previously CEO of a membership body focussing on the space sector, and prior to this Head of the President’s Office of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.  Outside work, she holds charity Trusteeships focusing on heritage and animal welfare, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.  She lives just outside London, in Kent, and enjoys travel, dance and gardening.