Hi, I’m Owen.
I am an expert in the law and regulation of digital technologies. I have over 13 years of experience working in the field in Brussels, London, and Dublin, and across industry, civil society, and the public sector. I am currently working independently, providing advisory and consultancy services on international digital policy.
My most recent role was Head of International Online Safety at Ofcom, the UK’s independent communications regulator. I built the function that delivered the regulator’s inaugural international online safety strategy, leading efforts to ensure the UK’s online safety regulatory approach was globally coherent. Through my representative role at Ofcom, I developed global expertise and profile, and I travelled across Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas to engage counterparts and stakeholders.
Prior to Ofcom, I worked as a senior policy manager at Mozilla, the public benefit tech company and maker of the Firefox web browser. In that role I made contributions to many of the key legislative building blocks to today’s tech sector compliance ecosystem, including the EU Digital Services Act, the EU Digital Markets Act, and the UK Online Safety Act.
My substantive expertise is policy issues related to the regulation of illegal and harmful content online, but I have also worked across the full range of contemporary digital policy issues, including cybersecurity; information integrity; competition; and privacy.
I regularly write, speak, and provide media commentary on digital policy issues, most of which I share via my LinkedIn and Bluesky accounts.
To discuss collaborations or simply to exchange notes, my contact details can be found at the bottom of this page.
hello@owenbennett.eu