Joanna Shields

CEO
BenevolentAI

Tech industry veteran Joanna Shields is currently CEO of BenevolentAI, a leading clinical-stage AI drug discovery company using AI to develop more effective medicines. She serves as Co-Chair of the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI), sits as a Commissioner on the Oxford Commission for AI and Good Governance (OXCAIGG) and has served as the UK’first Minister for Internet Safety and Security, Chair & CEO of TechCityUK and non-exec of the London Stock Exchange Group. In 2014, Shields founded WeProtect, a global alliance working to protect children from online abuse. In 2014, she was appointed OBE for services to digital industries and made a Life Peer in the House of Lords.