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Ideas@theHouse: July 2024 — recorded at Government House Sydney on 18 July 2024
“W x 3 — The World Wide Web (we weaved)!”
Julie Inman Grant, eSafety Commissioner, Australian Government
https://royalsoc.org.au/blog/ideas-thehouse-july-2024-1
The presentation commences at 11:26
Timing Marks:
00:00:00 Introduction to the Speaker: Her Excellency The Honourable Margaret Beazley AC KC, Governor of New South Wales
00:11:26 Presentation: Julie Inman Grant
00:57:20 Q&A session: Moderated by Dr Susan Pond AM FRSN, President of the Royal Society of New South Wales
01:05:27 Meeting Close: Dr Susan Pond
Summary: Julie Inman Grant is Australia’s eSafety Commissioner. In this role, Julie leads the world’s first government regulatory agency committed to keeping its citizens safer online.
Julie has extensive experience in the non-profit and government sectors and spent two decades working in senior public policy and safety roles in the tech industry at Microsoft, Twitter, and Adobe.
The Commissioner’s career began in Washington DC, working in the US Congress and the non-profit sector before taking on a role at Microsoft. Julie’s experience at Microsoft spanned 17 years, serving as one of the company’s first and longest-standing government relations professionals, ultimately in the role of Global Director for Safety & Privacy Policy and Outreach. At Twitter, she set up and drove the company’s policy, safety, and philanthropy programs across Australia, New Zealand & Southeast Asia and drove APAC-wide Government Relations for Adobe.
As Commissioner, Julie served on the Australian MyGov User Audit Panel and the Independent Advisory Board of the Technology Policy Design Centre. She served as co-founder and inaugural chair of the Global Online Safety Regulators Network and is a long-serving Board Member of the WePROTECT Global Alliance. The Commissioner also serves on the World Economic Forum’s Global Coalition for Digital Safety and on their Governance Steering Committee on Building and Defining the Metaverse. Under her leadership, eSafety has joined forces with the White House Gender Policy Council and the Government of Denmark on the Global Partnership for Action on Gender-Based Harassment and Abuse.
In 2021, Julie oversaw significant increases in the eSafety office’s budget, increased staffing levels, and launched the global Safety by Design initiative. As Commissioner, she has led work to stand up novel and world-first regulatory regimes under the new Online Safety Act 2021, with implementation of a sweeping new set of reforms beginning on 23 January 2022. Commissioner Inman Grant was reappointed for a further 5-year term by the Australian Government in January 2022.
The Commissioner was recently named one of Australia’s most influential women by the Australian Financial Review and a leading Australian in Foreign Affairs by the Sydney Morning Herald. In 2020, the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Apolitical appointed the Commissioner as one of the #Agile50, the world’s most influential leaders revolutionising government.
More information can be found at https://www.esafety.gov.au
Ideas@theHouse: July 2024 — recorded at Government House Sydney on 18 July 2024
“W x 3 — The World Wide Web (we weaved)!”
Julie Inman Grant, eSafety Commissioner, Australian Government
https://royalsoc.org.au/blog/ideas-thehouse-july-2024-1
The presentation commences at 11:26
Timing Marks:
00:00:00 Introduction to the Speaker: Her Excellency The Honourable Margaret Beazley AC KC, Governor of New South Wales
00:11:26 Presentation: Julie Inman Grant
00:57:20 Q&A session: Moderated by Dr Susan Pond AM FRSN, President of the Royal Society of New South Wales
01:05:27 Meeting Close: Dr Susan Pond
Summary: Julie Inman Grant is Australia’s eSafety Commissioner. In this role, Julie leads the world’s first government regulatory agency committed to keeping its citizens safer online.
Julie has extensive experience in the non-profit and government sectors and spent two decades working in senior public policy and safety roles in the tech industry at Microsoft, Twitter, and Adobe.
The Commissioner’s career began in Washington DC, working in the US Congress and the non-profit sector before taking on a role at Microsoft. Julie’s experience at Microsoft spanned 17 years, serving as one of the company’s first and longest-standing government relations professionals, ultimately in the role of Global Director for Safety & Privacy Policy and Outreach. At Twitter, she set up and drove the company’s policy, safety, and philanthropy programs across Australia, New Zealand & Southeast Asia and drove APAC-wide Government Relations for Adobe.
As Commissioner, Julie served on the Australian MyGov User Audit Panel and the Independent Advisory Board of the Technology Policy Design Centre. She served as co-founder and inaugural chair of the Global Online Safety Regulators Network and is a long-serving Board Member of the WePROTECT Global Alliance. The Commissioner also serves on the World Economic Forum’s Global Coalition for Digital Safety and on their Governance Steering Committee on Building and Defining the Metaverse. Under her leadership, eSafety has joined forces with the White House Gender Policy Council and the Government of Denmark on the Global Partnership for Action on Gender-Based Harassment and Abuse.
In 2021, Julie oversaw significant increases in the eSafety office’s budget, increased staffing levels, and launched the global Safety by Design initiative. As Commissioner, she has led work to stand up novel and world-first regulatory regimes under the new Online Safety Act 2021, with implementation of a sweeping new set of reforms beginning on 23 January 2022. Commissioner Inman Grant was reappointed for a further 5-year term by the Australian Government in January 2022.
The Commissioner was recently named one of Australia’s most influential women by the Australian Financial Review and a leading Australian in Foreign Affairs by the Sydney Morning Herald. In 2020, the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Apolitical appointed the Commissioner as one of the #Agile50, the world’s most influential leaders revolutionising government.
More information can be found at https://www.esafety.gov.au
