Oliver Griffiths

Group Director Ofcom

Oliver has been the Group Director for Online Safety at Ofcom since March 2025, overseeing the roll out and operation of the UK's new regulatory regime making life safer online. He was previously the first Chief Executive of the Trade Remedies Authority, between 2021 and 2025, establishing the UK's trade watchdog. He has spent most of the past 15 years in early-stage institutions, including setting up the £3.8bn Green Investment Bank, as President at a FinTech start-up developing a capacity-based trading platform and building the UK's post-Brexit trade policy function.

Oliver started his career as a corporate lawyer at Freshfields in London. He has considerable international economic experience, including as the UK's Chief Trade Negotiator with the US during the first Trump Administration. Since 2023 Oliver has been on the Board of the Global Climate Partnership Fund, a public-private debt fund focused on renewable energy and energy efficiency in developing countries.