Helen Milner

Helen Milner is the Chief Executive of Tinder Foundation, a UK social enterprise and staff-owned mutual. She is passionate about making good things happen through digital technologies. Helen works in partnership with 5,000 hyper-local communities so people can enjoy all the wonders of the web and digital public service delivery. In the four years 2010 - 2014 her organisation and partners have helped over 1.2 million people to do just that using www.learnmyway.com

Helen has almost 30 years experience of working on the internet, starting in 1985 in the private sector with TTNS, developing internet education content and services for UK children and schools. She worked in online education in Australia and Japan, and she helped to create learndirect – the UK online adult learning network.

Working closely with Government Ministers and officials since the 1990s Helen’s ambition is to ensure that no-one is left behind as the world becomes more and more digital. In 2012 she was included in the Digital Hall of Fame for the 20 influential Britons in digital. Helen is a Commissioner for Social Mobility for Brent Council, and is a member of The House of Commons Speaker’s Commission for Digital Democracy.