The LSE School of Public Policy (SPP) is delighted to welcome Natalie Black CBE as Visiting Professor in Practice.
Natalie Black CBE is Group Director for Communications and Networks and Executive Board Member at Ofcom (the UK’s regulatory and competition authority for the communications sector). She is also responsible for leading Ofcoms’s work on the implications of Artificial Intelligence.
Previously, Natalie was the UK’s first His Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for Asia Pacific. Based in Singapore, she led the UK’s trade strategy and operations across 15 countries and was the UK’s first Senior Economic Official to ASEAN. Highlights included the UK’s first Digital Economy Agreement, securing new investment deals from Australia and Japan and joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
In the UK, Natalie was Deputy Head of the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit where she oversaw the AI Review (2017) and established and led the first cross-government Online Harms Unit. Natalie has over 10 years of experience in cyber security and led the National Cyber Security Programme as Deputy Director and Director of the Office of Cyber Security in the Cabinet Office after joining the Civil Service from London2012, where she was Chief of Staff to the Director of Security.
Natalie is also a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and was previously a trustee of Bletchley Park and co-founded GBxAsia (now British Tech Advisers) to support collaboration between the UK and Asian tech ecosystems.
She is a graduate of the London School of Economics and Harvard Kennedy School, where she was a Fulbright scholar.
Professor Alexander Evans OBE FRHistS, Programme Director for the MPA in Data Science for Public Policy, celebrated Natalie’s appointment: “We are delighted to welcome Natalie Black to LSE, where her expertise, insight and leadership will help our community engage with tech, regulation and public policy.”
Commenting on the appointment, Natalie said: “I am delighted to be returning to the LSE which is such an important source of innovation and international collaboration. I look forward to engaging with the world class faculty and students.”
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