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Appendix 2: List of witnesses

Evidence is published online at https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/407/democracy-and-digital-technologies-committee/ and available for inspection at the Parliamentary Archives (020 7219 3074).

Evidence received by the Committee is listed below in chronological order of oral evidence session and in alphabetical order. Those witnesses marked with ** gave both oral and written evidence. Those marked with * gave oral evidence and did not submit any written evidence. All other witnesses submitted written evidence only.

Oral evidence in chronological order

*	Baroness O’Neill	QQ 1–11
*	Susannah Storey, Director General for Digital and Media Policy at Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport	QQ 12–30
*	Sarah Connolly, Director for Security and Online Harms at Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
*	Michelle Dyson, Director of Qualifications, Curriculum and Extra-Curricular at Department for Education
*	Natalie Bodek, Acting Deputy Director, Elections Division, Cabinet Office
*	Alex Krasodomski-Jones, Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media, Demos	QQ 31–44
*	Caroline Elsom, Senior Researcher, Centre for Policy Studies
**	Rachel Coldicutt, CEO, Doteveryone
**	Professor Helen Margetts, Professor of the Internet and Society, University of Oxford and Director of Public Policy Programme at The Alan Turing Institute	QQ 45–56
*	Dr Martin Moore, Director of the Centre for the Study of Media, Communication and Power, King’s College London
*	Professor Cristian Vaccari, Professor of Political Communication, Loughborough University
**	Lord David Currie, Chairman, Advertising Standards Authority	QQ 57–69
**	Guy Parker, CEO, Advertising Standards Authority
*	Eric Salama, CEO, Kantar	QQ 70–83
**	Paul Bainsfair, Director General, Institute of Practitioners in Advertising
*	Keith Weed, President, Advertising Association
**	Will Moy, Chief Executive, Full Fact	QQ 84–98
*	Ed Humpherson, Director General of Regulation, Office for Statistics Regulation
*	Jenni Sargent, Managing Director, First Draft
*	Allan Leonard, Editor in Chief, FactCheckNI
**	Jessica Cecil, Director of the BBC Online Project, BBC	QQ 99–111
*	Matthew d’Ancona, Editor and Partner, Tortoise Media
*	James Mitchinson, Editor, Yorkshire Post
*	Ben Scott, Director of Policy, Luminate	QQ 112–123
*	Elisabeth Braw, Director, Modern Deterrence Project, Royal United Services Institute
*	Lisa-Maria Neudert, Commission Secretary, Oxford Technology and Elections Commission
*	Paddy McGuinness, Oxford Technology and Elections Commission, former Deputy National Security Adviser
**	Pascal Crowe, Data and Democracy Project Officer, Open Rights Group	QQ 124–135
**	Ailidh Callander, Legal Officer, Privacy International
*	Jon Lloyd, Head of European Campaigns, Mozilla Foundation
*	Professor Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Director, Reuters Institute	QQ 136–146
**	Angie Pitt, Director, NewsWise
*	Dr Elinor Carmi, Research Associate in Digital Culture and Society, University of Liverpool
**	Helen Milner OBE, Group Chief Executive, Good Things Foundation
**	Liz Moorse, CEO, Association for Citizenship Teaching	QQ 147–162
*	Jonathan Baggaley, CEO, PSHE Association
*	Dr Bill Mitchell, Director of Policy, BCS The Chartered Institute for IT
**	Dr Jennifer Cobbe, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Cambridge	QQ 163–168
**	Christoph Schott, Campaign Director, Avaaz
**	Alaphia Zoyab, Senior Campaigner, Avaaz
*	Professor Sarah Roberts, Co-Director, UCLA Centre for Critical Internet Inquiry	QQ 169–177
*	Professor Safiya Noble, Co-Director, UCLA Centre for Critical Internet Inquiry	QQ 169–177
*	Siim Kumpas, Adviser to the Government Office of Estonia	QQ 178–186
*	Roger Taylor, Chair, Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation	QQ 187–199
*	Oliver Buckley, Executive Director, Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation
**	Louise Edwards, Director of Regulation, Electoral Commission	QQ 200–225
**	Craig Westwood, Director of Communications, Policy and Research, Electoral Commission	QQ 200–225
*	Sir Julian King, former EU Security Commissioner	QQ 226–239
**	Vint Cerf, Vice President, Google	QQ 240–257
**	Katie O’Donovan, Head of UK Government Affairs and Public Policy, Google	QQ 240–257
*	Peter Baeck, Co-Head of the Centre for Collective Intelligence Design, NESTA	QQ 258–266
**	Dr Alan Renwick, Deputy Director, The Constitution Unit, University College London
**	Professor Cristina Leston-Bandeira, Professor of Politics, University of Leeds
**	Joe Mitchell, Coordinator, Democracy Club
**	Dr Rebecca Rumbul, Head of Research, My Society	QQ 267–279
*	Tim Hughes, Director, Involve
*	Professor Graham Smith, Professor of Politics, University of Westminster
**	Kevin Bakhurst, Group Director of Content and Media Policy, Ofcom	QQ 280–288
**	Tony Close, Director of Content Standards, Licensing and Enforcement, Ofcom
**	Elizabeth Denham, Information Commissioner	QQ 289–296
**	Steve Wood, Deputy Commissioner, Information Commissioner’s Office
**	Karim Palant, UK Public Policy Manager, Facebook	QQ 297–310
**	Katy Minshall, Head of UK Government, Public Policy and Philanthropy, Twitter	QQ 311–325
*	Caroline Dinenage MP, Minister of State for Digital and Culture, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport	QQ 326–356
*	Nick Gibb MP, Minister of State for School Standards, Department for Education
**	Chloe Smith MP, Minister of State, Cabinet Office

Alphabetical list of all witnesses

	5Rights Foundation	DAD0082
**	Advertising Standards Authority	DAD0029
*	The Alan Turing Institute Public Policy Programme	DAD0063
**	Association for Citizenship Teaching	DAD0070
**	Avaaz	DAD0073
*	Peter Baeck, Co-Head of the Centre for Collective Intelligence Design, NESTA
**	Jonathan Baggaley, CEO, PSHE Association
**	Paul Bainsfair, Director General, Institute of Practitioners in Advertising
**	Kevin Bakhurst, Group Director of Content and Media Policy, Ofcom
	Bang the Table	DAD0025
**	BBC	DAD0062
*	Natalie Bodek, Acting Deputy Director, Elections Division, Cabinet Office
	Dr Gillian Bolsover, Lecturer in Politics and Media, University of Leeds	DAD0046
	John Brace	DAD0009
	Brave Software	DAD0085
*	Elisabeth Braw, Director, Modern Deterrence Project, Royal United Services Institute
*	Oliver Buckley, Executive Director, Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation
	Dr Dominic Burbidge, Lecturer in Politics, Research Director, University of Oxford	DAD0044
	Dame Frances Cairncross	DAD0068
**	Ailidh Callander, Legal Officer, Privacy International
	Care England	DAD0003
*	Dr Elinor Carmi, Research Associate in Digital Culture and Society, University of Liverpool
	Carnegie UK Trust	DAD0087
**	Jessica Cecil, Director of the BBC Online Project, BBC	DAD0062
*	Vint Cerf, Vice President, Google	DAD0101
	Channel 4	DAD0055
**	Tony Close, Director of Content Standards, Licensing and Enforcement, Ofcom
	Coalition for Reform in Political Advertising	DAD0071 DAD0092
**	Dr Jennifer Cobbe, Researcher at University of Cambridge	DAD0074
**	Rachel Coldicutt, CEO, Doteveryone
*	Sarah Connolly, Director for Security and Online Harms, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	Conscious Advertising Network	DAD0091
	Conservative Party	DAD0095 DAD0106
	James Craske, Research Associate, Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia, Harry Dyer, Lecturer in Education, School of Education & Lifelong Learning, University of East Anglia, and Janis Loschmann Associate Tutor, School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies, University of East Anglia University	DAD0023
**	Pascal Crowe, Data and Democracy Project Officer, Open Rights Group
**	Lord David Currie, Chairman, Advertising Standards Authority
*	Matthew d’Ancona, Editor and Partner, Tortoise Media
**	Elizabeth Denham, Information Commissioner
	Dr Rossana Deplano, Lecturer in Law, University of Leicester	DAD0014
	Digital Radio Mondiale	DAD0015
*	Caroline Dinenage MP, Minister of State for Digital and Culture, DCMS
**	Doteveryone	DAD0037
	Dr Robert Dover, Associate Professor in Intelligence and Security, University of Leicester	DAD0027
*	Michelle Dyson, Director of Qualifications, Curriculum and Extra-Curricular, Department for Education
	Christina Eager	DAD0002
**	Louise Edwards, Director of Regulation, Electoral Commission
**	Electoral Commission	DAD0058 DAD0100
**	Caroline Elsom, Senior Researcher, Centre for Policy Studies
**	Facebook	DAD0081
**	Full Fact	DAD0042
	Archie Gent	DAD0007
	Dr Ysabel Gerrard, Lecturer in Digital Media and Society, University of Sheffield	DAD0093
*	Nick Gibb MP, Minister of State for School Standards, Department for Education
**	Google	DAD0086
	Good Things Foundation	DAD0039
	Dr Claire Hardaker, Senior Lecturer in Forensic Corpus Linguistics, Lancaster University	DAD0035
	John Harding	DAD0016
	Susan Hedley	DAD0057
**	HM Government	DAD0034 DAD0102
	Professor Peter Hopkins, Professor of Social Geography, Newcastle University	DAD0053 DAD0056
	Tristan Hotham	DAD0021
*	Tim Hughes, Director, Involve
	The Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project	DAD0077
**	Ed Humpherson, Director General of Regulation, Office for Statistics Regulation
	Index on Censorship	DAD0032
**	Information Commissioner’s Office	DAD0043
	Institute for Strategic Dialogue	DAD0069
**	Institute of Practitioners in Advertising	DAD0026
	ITV plc, Channel 4, Sky and ViacomCBS	DAD0090
	Roy Jakes	DAD0010
	Dr Argyro Karanasiou, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Greenwich	DAD0038
	Andrew Kemp	DAD0052
*	Sir Julian King, former EU Security Commissioner
*	Professor Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Director, Reuters Institute
*	Alex Krasodomski-Jones, Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media, Demos
	Professor Daniel Kreiss, Associate Professor, Hussman School of Journalism and Media at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	DAD0098
*	Siim Kumpas, Adviser to the Government Office of Estonia
	Michael La Costa	DAD0017
	Labour Party	DAD0096
	Sparkster Labs Ltd	DAD0064
	Dr Ana Langer, Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Glasgow	DAD0048
	David Last	DAD0004
*	Allan Leonard, Editor in Chief, FactCheckNI
**	Professor Cristina Leston-Bandeira, Professor of Politics, University of Leeds	DAD0097
	Liberal Democrats	DAD0094 DAD0105
*	Jon Lloyd, Head of European Campaigns, Mozilla Foundation
	London School of Economics T3 Project	DAD0078
**	Professor Helen Margetts, Professor of the Internet and Society, University of Oxford and Director of Public Policy Programme at The Alan Turing Institute
	Professor Derek McAuley, Dr Jiahong Chen and Dr Ansgar Koene, Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute, University of Nottingham	DAD0040
*	Paddy McGuinness, Oxford Technology and Elections Commission, former Deputy National Security Adviser
	Microsoft	DAD0050
**	Helen Milner OBE, Group Chief Executive, Good Things Foundation
**	Katy Minshall, Head of UK Government, Public Policy and Philanthropy, Twitter	DAD0103
*	Dr Bill Mitchell, Director of Policy, BCS The Chartered Institute for IT
	Joe Mitchell, Dr Alan Renwick, and Michela Palese	DAD0099
**	Joe Mitchell, Co-ordinator, Democracy Club	DAD0045
*	James Mitchinson, Editor, Yorkshire Post
*	Dr Martin Moore, Senior Lecturer in Political Communication Education and Director of the Centre for the Study of Media, Communication and Power, King’s College London
**	Liz Moorse, CEO, Association for Citizenship Teaching
**	Will Moy, Chief Executive, Full Fact
**	MySociety	DAD0024 DAD0051
	National Literacy Trust	DAD0065
	National Pensioners Convention	DAD0018
	Network for Media and Persuasive Communication, Bangor University	DAD0019
*	Lisa-Maria Neudert, Commission Secretary, Oxford Technology and Elections Commission
**	NewsWise	DAD0072
*	Professor Safiya Noble, Co-Director, UCLA Centre for Critical Internet Inquiry
**	Katie O’Donovan, Head of UK Government Affairs and Public Policy, Google
*	Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve
**	Ofcom	DAD0049
	Open University	DAD0061
**	Oxford Internet Institute	DAD0060
**	Karim Palant, UK Public Policy Manager, Facebook
**	Guy Parker, CEO, Advertising Standards Authority
**	Angie Pitt, Director, NewsWise
	Play Verto Global Ltd	DAD0028
	The Politics Project	DAD0066
	Robin Potter	DAD0008
**	Privacy International	DAD0041
**	Dr Alan Renwick, Deputy Director of the Constitution Unit, University College London
*	Professor Sarah Roberts, Co-Director, UCLA Centre for Critical Internet Inquiry
	Dr Felipe Romero-Moreno, Research Degrees Admissions Tutor, University of Hertfordshire	DAD0059
	Dr Patrícia Rossini, Derby Fellow, School of the Arts, Liverpool University and Dr Antonis Kalogeropoulos, Lecturer in Communication and Media, Liverpool University	DAD0075
	Royal Statistical Society	DAD0084
**	Dr Rebecca Rumbul, Head of Research, MySociety
*	Eric Salama, CEO, Kantar
*	Jenni Sargent, Managing Director, First Draft
**	Christoph Schott, Campaign Director, Avaaz
*	Ben Scott, Director of Policy, Luminate
	Scytl Secure Electronic Voting	DAD0030
	Dr Mark Shephard, University of Strathclyde	DAD0036
	Bethany Shiner, Lecturer in Law, Middlesex University	DAD0013
*	Professor Graham Smith, Professor of Politics, University of Westminster
**	Chloe Smith MP, Minister of State, Cabinet Office
	Dr Lone Sorensen, Senior Lecturer, Department of Media, Journalism and Film, Huddersfield University	DAD0067
	Stanford History Education Group	DAD0080
*	Susannah Storey, Director General for Digital and Media Policy at Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	Dr Rosalynd Southern, University of Liverpool	DAD0022
**	Roger Taylor, Chair, Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation
	Dr Luke Temple, Teaching Associate in Political Geography, University of Sheffield	DAD0048
	Barry Thain	DAD0001
	Dr Rebekah Tromble, Associate Professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs and Associate Director of the Institute for Data, Democracy, and Politics, George Washington University	DAD0104
**	Twitter	DAD0103
	The Digital Life Skills Company CIC	DAD0033
	UK Parliament Education and Engagement Team	DAD0083
*	Professor Cristian Vaccari, Professor of Political Communication, Loughborough University
*	Keith Weed, President, Advertising Association
**	Craig Westwood, Director of Communications, Policy and Research, Electoral Commission
**	Steve Wood, Deputy Commissioner, Information Commissioner’s Office
**	Alaphia Zoyab, Senior Campaigner, Avaaz

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