Oona
Oona King is a politician turned Tech Exec. She has spent a decade in US tech, holding senior roles at Google, YouTube, Snap Inc. And then Chief Economic Opportunity Officer at Uber, in a role covering workforce strategy and public-private partnerships for the AI transition. She launched Uber's first enterprise-wide Inclusive Leadership tool, and in 2026 co-created an AI-enabled workforce navigation prototype to support career mobility and apprenticeship pathways.
Oona's legislation reshaped the workplace. Appointed to the House of Lords in 2011 as Baroness King of Bow, she introduced the 2016 law requiring every UK company with more than 250 employees to publish its gender pay gap - a transparency standard whose consequences reached from Westminster to Silicon Valley. As Senior Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister, she was Downing Street's negotiator on the Equality Act 2010.
Elected to Parliament at 29 as the second woman of colour in the House of Commons, she changed the law more than 15 times across housing, employment, children's rights, online safety, and equalities. Her work raised pay for Britain's lowest-paid workers and laid groundwork for the first National Minimum Wage. She founded the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Genocide Prevention and was recognized by the UN Security Council for her work on peacekeeping in Congo and Rwanda.
As VP at Snap Inc, she authored the ACT Report - the sector's largest cross-company commitment on workforce equity, signed by Google, Apple, Netflix, and 30 others, and praised by the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (Nov 2024). At Google she built the company's first Attrition Index, which enabled gender analysis around corporate opportunity. At Channel 4 she created the UK broadcasting industry's first shared diversity measurement infrastructure.
She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and four children, three of whom are adopted. In case her career goes very wrong, she is also a certified aerobics instructor.