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I started my career as a trainee lawyer with a law firm where I got my first taste of tech. Fascinated by mobile, I decided, on qualifying, to move in-house to Vodafone. This was 1997, the start of the mobile boom that would re-shape the way we communicate. I joined Facebook in January 2015 in my current role to create Facebook’s international privacy policy team.
Some personal highlights of my career at Vodafone: I worked on the launch of the world’s first fully-fledged pre-pay business model, Pay as you talk, which triggered the explosion in mobile growth; helped develop and launch M-PESA in Africa, the world’s most successful mobile money transfer service; created Vodafone’s global privacy programme and launched Vodafone’s first transparency report on human rights, one of the most extensive corporate reports on transparency into government access to private sector data.