Martha Lane-Fox
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Martha Lane-Fox is an entrepreneur and internet activist who first made her name with lastminute.com. She is a director of Twitter and Non Executive Director of Chanel, Chancellor of the Open University, and a crossbench peer in the House of Lords. Martha talked to Aleks about how she helped two different Prime Ministers set a benchmark for government digital services, and about a female tech trailblazer who had to change her name to Stevie to get her CV read.
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