Gill Whitehead

Non-Executive Director

Appointed August 2019, Audit Committee Chair in June 2021

Gill brings significant experience in the technology and media sectors to Informa and is Visiting Policy Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Internet Institute, focusing on global developments in online and AI safety. Gill was Group Director, Online Safety at Ofcom from April 2023 to late 2024 and Chair of the Global Online Safety Regulator Network for 2024. Before that, from 2021 to early 2023, she was Chief Executive of the Digital Regulators Forum, a collaboration between the UK’s largest regulators.

Gill previously spent four years as a Senior Director at Google leading Market Insights and Client Solutions & Analytics teams and worked at Channel Four and BBC Worldwide. She began her career at Deloitte Consulting.

Gill is a Non-Executive Director of NatWest Group plc and the British Olympic Association and Chair of the Women’s Rugby World Cup (England) 2025.