Kate Jones

Chief Executive Officer Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum

Kate Jones is the Chief Executive Officer of the Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum (www.drcf.org.uk).  Kate leads this innovative team, working to increase and deepen coordination between UK regulators of online services and technology for the benefit of businesses and their customers.  

Before joining the DRCF, Kate was an expert consultant and researcher on the governance of emerging technologies, with particular regard to human rights law, public international law and diplomacy. She was an Associate Fellow with the International Law Programme at Chatham House, Senior Associate with Oxford Information Labs, and member of the advisory board of an AI ethics company. She has published and spoken widely on aspects of national and international tech governance.

Kate is a member of the Leadership Counsil for the Women Regulators Network, which aims to increase the presence and influence of women in regulatory leadership globally. She is also a trustee of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, reflecting her background as a public international lawyer. Prior to her work on tech governance, she had a varied career as a British diplomat, international and human rights lawyer, Oxford University academic and course director. Kate took her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in law at the University of Oxford and qualified as a UK solicitor at Norton Rose.

Digital Platform Week: Ecosystem Day

9:45 AM Keynote Panel: Accelerating Collaboration Between Industry and Regulators

As online risks evolve, both regulators and platforms face increasing pressure to respond quickly and effectively. This fireside chat brings together a senior regulator and a trust & safety executive to discuss where collaboration is working, where challenges remain, and how both sides can work together to improve online safety outcomes. Join this session to explore:

Where industry-regulator collaboration is delivering positive results
The key barriers to faster and more effective action on online harms
Balancing regulatory expectations with innovation and agility
Opportunities for greater transparency, engagement, and information sharing
What stronger industry-regulator partnerships could look like in the future

11:45 AM FIRESIDE Chat: Joined-Up Digital Regulation: How Industry and the DRCF Can Work Better Together

As digital regulation becomes more interconnected, platforms are increasingly facing issues that do not sit neatly within one regulator's remit. Online safety, privacy, competition, consumer protection, financial harm, and AI governance often overlap in the same product decisions. This fireside chat will explore how industry and regulators can build more effective dialogue through the DRCF model, where coordination is working, where friction remains, and what both sides need from each other to respond more quickly and coherently as digital risks evolve.

Join this session to explore:

How the DRCF is supporting more coherent regulation across the UK digital economy.
Where cross-regulator coordination can help platforms navigate overlapping obligations.
The practical barriers to faster, clearer and more consistent regulatory engagement.
How industry can share evidence, raise tensions and engage earlier with regulators.

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Kate.

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