Meet the Glenlead Team
The Glenlead Centre has leading team of inhouse and external academic policy experts from a wide range of academic disciplines.

Dr Ann Kristin Glenster
Executive Director
Dr Ann Kristin Glenster (Cantab) is a legal expert on data protection, privacy, cybersecurity, and digital and AI regulation and governance. She has been a doctoral scholar at the Harvard Law School and holds a PhD in Law from the University of Cambridge.
Having founded the Glenlead Centre in 2021, Ann Kristin quickly secured its first substantial client in the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at the University of Cambridge. She is now in her second year as the Centre’s Senior Policy Advisor on Technology Governance and Law. Ann Kristin is also an affiliate of and Senior Legal Strategist to the International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE) out of the University of Oxford.

Dr Vaughan Connolly
Director

Dr Steven Watson
Head of Education Research

Dr Jude Brady
Senior Research Associate

Dr Funke Oyebanjo
Senior Research Associate

Roxanne Persaud
Research Associate

Dr Piers Bursill-Hall
Senior Research Associate

Dr Tony Briscoe
Research Associate

Bethany Shiner
Research Associate

Stephanie Lugg
Strategist & Editor