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Helen Dixon was appointed as Data Protection Commissioner for Ireland in September 2014. Responsible for upholding the rights of individuals regarding how data about them is used, the role, among other things, requires regulation of a large number of US internet multinationals with European bases in Ireland. Previously Irish Registrar of Companies where she led regulatory enforcement of compliance with the filing provisions of the Companies Acts, Helen has also held senior roles in the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation working on economic migration policy, science, technology and innovation policy. She spent the first ten years of her career in the IT industry. She holds postgraduate qualifications in European Economic and Public Affairs, Governance, Computer Science, Official Statistics for Policy Evaluation, and Judicial Skills and Decision Making. She was delighted to have been awarded an honorary fellowship of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA) in 2014.

Mr Godfrey has over 30 years experience in public service, and in the telecommunications and IT sector. Prior to his appointment, Mr Godfrey was a member of the Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) where he also served as Chairperson of ComReg from March 2015 until March 2017. Mr Godfrey was the Government Chief Information Officer in Hong Kong from 2008 to 2011. He has been a partner in PA Consulting Group and has held senior roles in Hong Kong Telecom and the Cable & Wireless Group. Mr Godfrey has also worked for the UK Department of Trade and Industry and as an independent consultant. He holds an MA from Cambridge University, where he studied mathematics.

Garrett Blaney joined the Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) as Commissioner on 7 January 2019 and Chairperson from then until January 2022. He is the ComReg representative on the newly established Digital Regulators Group.

Brian McHugh is a Member of the CCPC. As well as collegiate decision making with other Members on all aspects of the organisation, he currently oversees the Competition Enforcement & Mergers Division and the Policy & International Division. He also oversees the CCPC’s approach to new digital legislation and co-operation with other digital regulators in Ireland. He was appointed as a Member of the CCPC in September 2017. Prior to this he spent 15 years in Northern Ireland’s Utility Regulator, the body responsible for both regulating and protecting the interests of consumers within the gas, electricity and water utility industries in Northern Ireland. Brian holds a BA in Economics from Trinity College, Dublin, and an MSc in Energy Economics from the University of Surrey.

Baroness Kidron is a Crossbench Peer in the UK House of Lords and Founder of the 5Rights Foundation. After 30 years as an award-winning film director, Kidron was appointed to the House of Lords, where she has been a world-leading advocate for digital regulation and accountability; most particularly in relation to children and young people. She is the architect of the Age Appropriate Design Code, which prompted a radical redesign of digital products and services to protect the safety and privacy of children, and the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, which was signed into law by Governor of California, Gavin Newsom in September 2022.

Joan Barata works on freedom of expression, media regulation, and intermediary liability issues as Senior Legal Fellow at the Danish think tank Justitia. He is also a Fellow of the Program on Platform Regulation at the Stanford Cyber Policy Center. He has published a large number of articles and books on these subjects, both in academic and popular press. His work has taken him in most regions of the world, and he is regularly involved in projects with international organizations such as UNESCO, the Council of Europe, the Organization of American States or the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, where was the principal advisor to the Representative on Media Freedom. Joan Barata also has experience as a regulator, as he held the position of Secretary General of the Audiovisual Council of Catalonia in Spain and was member of the Permanent Secretariat of the Mediterranean Network of Regulatory Authorities

Ioanna is Senior Manager-Research at the Internet Commission, a non-profit organisation which focuses on advancing corporate digital responsibility through independent audits of online service providers. She has co-authored the Internet Commission’s Accountability Reports on trust and safety practices of major platforms including the BBC, Sony PlayStation, Tinder and Twitch breaking ground in the field of auditing the practices and governance of content moderation. Ioanna holds a PhD in Citizenship Studies and prior to her work with the Internet Commission, she conducted academic research in UCL’s Institute of Education and the University of Leeds. Since 2016 she has been a visiting fellow at LSE’s Department of Media and Communications researching citizenship, education and children's rights in the digital world. Ioanna has written extensively on the subjects of internet governance, corporate digital responsibility, and childhood for academic and policy outlets. She has held advisory roles in academia and civil society and is currently a member of the multistakeholder committee of the Greek chapter of UN’s Internet Governance Forum.

Lokke is widely recognized as the leading global expert on BCR and authored Binding Corporate Rules, Corporate Self-Regulation of Global Data Transfers, published by Oxford University Press in 2012, which is considered the leading textbook on BCR. She is MoFo’s lead counsel on BCR, with unsurpassed experience advising multinational companies in obtaining their BCR approvals throughout the EU. Lokke co-heads the Global Privacy Group (GPG), a working group of chief privacy officers and in-house lawyers at leading European multinationals. The GPG developed a set of Binding Corporate Rules (BCR), which have since received EU-wide approval.