Jenny Thornton

Description: Jenny is the Head of International Relations at Get Safe Online, working on the Get the Commonwealth Safe Online project, funded by the UK Commonwealth Cyber Security Programme. Her role consists of building and maintaining strategic relationships across partner countries, global regions, and industries, to improve online safety for citizens and businesses worldwide. Her work currently focused on Africa, the Pacific and the Caribbean. In her previous role at the Internet Watch Foundation, Jenny worked with governments, regulators, CSOs and the internet industry in the developing world to develop technology for the elimination of child sexual abuse imagery online, including in El Salvador, Belize, Haiti, Malaysia, Mozambique, Mongolia, Indonesia, Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Senegal and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Jenny has an academic interest in the politics of sub-Sahara Africa and is an occasional lecturer at the University of Cambridge.