Ms Almudena is the global lead on child safety policy at Google, where she leads work on protecting children from child sexual abuse and exploitation and providing safe experiences to children across products. She joined Google from the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), the UK’s largest child protection charity where she led the work to influence the debate in the UK on online safety as well as wider child protection issues. Formerly, she led major programmes for improving the outcomes for children at the UK Department for Education and worked at the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, advising on issues from welfare reform to social investment and social action. Before entering the UK Civil Service, Almudena worked for eight years as an economic consultant at Frontier Economics.