Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Region: Western European and Others Group - WEOG
Biography
Kirsty Hughes was appointed Chief Executive of Index on Censorship, Britain’s leading free expression organisation and leads a team of 20 in Index’s London office and 12 staff around the world. Prior to joining Index in April 2012, Kirsty covered international politics and public policy over the last two decades including for think-tanks (Chatham House, Friends of Europe and others), the European Commission, and Oxfam, where she was head of Global Public Policy and Advocacy at Oxfam. Prior to taking on her current appointment, Kirsty was Senior Associate Fellow, at the Centre for International Studies, University of Oxford. Kirsty is also an experienced writer, policy analyst and journalist who has written extensively on European and international politics.
Dr Hughes has considerable expertise in this area having recently chaired both a session at the OSCE Conference on Internet Freedom: Internet Governance and Human Rights and a panel discussion organised by the European Parliamentary Assembly Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media: Between responsibility and reality: how can we guarantee free expression online?