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Dr Rys Farthing

Dr Rys Farthing is policy expert on children’s rights, especially around technology and disadvantage. Rys holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford where she was a Clarendon scholar, and a MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is currently the Director of Children’s Policy at Reset (Australia), a global think tank working to tackle digital threats to democracy. She has previously worked for the 5Rights Foundation (UK), and Fairplay (US), and the APPG on Poverty (UK). She has also held academia posts at Oxford and RMIT.



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