Baroness Beeban Kidron OBE is a Crossbench Peer in the House of Lords and a passionate advocate for children’s rights in the digital age.

Prior to entering the House of Lords, Kidron enjoyed a distinguished 30-year career as a film director, known for works such as the BAFTA-winning Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Too Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, and documentaries like Sex, Death and the Gods and InRealLife. She was also the co-founder of the educational charity Into Film, which now provides free access to more than half of all UK state schools.

Kidron is the Founder and Chair of the 5Rights Foundation, a charity focused on developing policies and practical solutions to ensure a safer and more equitable digital world for children and young people. Among its key initiatives, 5Rights is drafting the General Comment on the Digital World for the Council on the Rights of the Child, establishing an international standard for Age-Appropriate Published Terms, and collaborating with countries globally to produce a Global Handbook on Child Online Protection. The Foundation also hosts the Digital Futures Commission.

In the House of Lords, Kidron successfully introduced amendments to the Data Protection Act 2018, leading to the creation of the Age Appropriate Design Code (commonly known as the Children’s Code), the first legislation of its kind, ensuring robust data protection for users under the age of 18. She has also served on the Democracy and Digital Technologies Committee Inquiry and was previously a member of the Lords Communications Select Committee.

Beeban Kidron is a member of the UN Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development, the Global Council on Extended Intelligence, and the UNICEF Artificial Intelligence and Child Rights Policy Guidance Group.