Elizabeth Stuart is Executive Director of Digital Pathways at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government. Pathways is a research, policy engagement and teaching programme focussed on questions of governance of digital technologies. She previously performed the same role for the Pathways for Prosperity, a global policy commission aiming to set out how developing countries can foster digital technologies for inclusive growth, which was co-chaired by philanthropist Melinda Gates, tech entrepreneur Strive Masiyiwa and Indonesian finance minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati.
Before joining Oxford University, Elizabeth was director of the Growth, Poverty and Inequality programme at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI); director of policy and research for Save the Children UK; a financial journalist for the Guardian newspaper and BBC and spent seven years in Washington DC running the Oxfam International office.