Liz Carolan

Liz Carolan is a writer, advisor and advocate working on technology and its impact on democracy, with a particular interest in corporate accountability and digital and industrial policy in the European Union. She founded Digital Action, a global campaign organization demanding better standards from the governments and corporations responsible for our digital environments. She also set up the Transparent Referendum Initiative, which identified overseas interference in Ireland’s referendum on abortion rights and led to changes in social media platform policy on the transparency of political advertising. A political scientist by training, she has held research and advisory roles at the Institute for Government, the Open Data Institute and the Africa Governance Initiative. She is currently based in her hometown of Dublin, where she works as an adviser to a number of European and global tech and society initiatives, publishes the TheBriefing.ie newsletter, and is a regular commentator in Irish print and broadcast media.