Martha Lane Fox is an entrepreneur, crossbench peer and digital leader who has helped shape Britain’s technology landscape. She co-founded lastminute.com, one of Europe’s pioneering e-commerce businesses and played a founding role in the Government Digital Service, which built GOV.UK and transformed access to public services.
She chairs the Mayor of London’s Taskforce on AI and Jobs and is a non-executive director of Chanel, Multiverse and British Airways. She also advises the Lakestar Resilience Fund and is a governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
A former President of the British Chambers of Commerce and Chancellor of the Open University, Martha champions skills, innovation and wider access to opportunity. She is Patron of iamtheCODE, Day One Trauma Support and AbilityNet.
