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Francesca Edgerton is a Policy Fellow (Industrial Strategy) at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP).
Francesca Edgerton has spent the last 2 years working on the intersection of tech and democracy at the Open Society Foundations, focusing on AI industrial strategy and global tech governance. At OSF, she focused on achieving mission orientated goals through grant making, advocacy and narrative change in areas such as tech anti-monopoly organising and global big tech accountability, as well as through supporting independent media.
Francesca previously worked as a researcher at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, where she authored reports and conducted research on media viability, mis/disinformation and media capture for a variety of policy and academic audiences.
Prior to this, Francesca worked in independent film distribution in Latin America, where she led on business development in Mexico and the Southern Cone.
She is currently also pursuing an AHRC funded part-time PhD on the history of exile in 20th century Mexico at UCL.
Francesca did her master’s in Latin American History at New York University, and her undergrad in History at the University of Edinburgh.