33. Children's Online Rights - Beeban Kidron
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Baroness Beeban Kidron OBE sits as a crossbench peer in the UK’s House of Lords.
She is an advisor to the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford, a Commissioner on the UN Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development, an expert advisor for the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence, and Founder and Chair of 5Rights Foundation.
Before taking up her seat in the House of Lords in 2012, Baroness Kidron spent 30 years as a film maker. Her credits include, the BAFTA award-winning 'Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit', 'Bridget Jones: the Edge of Reason' and 'To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar'.
She also co-founded the education charity Into Film, which currently engages with over two thirds of schools in the UK offering a wide programme of film clubs, cinema screenings, and resources and training to support classroom teaching.
Baroness Beeban Kidron OBE's personal site: https://beeban.com/
Baroness Kidron's Parliamentary page: https://members.parliament.uk/member/4258/career
5 Rights Foundation: https://5rightsfoundation.com/
Into Film: https://www.intofilm.org/
Beeban Kidron's IMDB page: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0452319/
Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeban_Kidron
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