Beeban Kidron

Beeban Tania Kidron, Baroness Kidron, OBE (born 2 May 1961) is an advocate for children's rights in the digital world. She has played a determinative role in establishing standards for online safety and privacy across the world.

The Baroness Kidron
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
26 June 2012
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born
Beeban Tania Kidron

(1961-05-02) 2 May 1961
North London, England
Spouse
(m. 2003)
Children2
Parent(s)Michael Kidron; Nina Kidron
Alma materNational Film School
OccupationFilm director, producer, campaigner

Baroness Kidron sits as a crossbench peer in the UK's House of Lords. She is an advisor to the Institute for Ethics in AI at Oxford University, a commissioner on the UN Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development and founder and chair of 5Rights Foundation.

Before being appointed to the Lords she was an award-winning film director and founder of the charity Filmclub (now Into Film).

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