Liz Williams MBE

Liz is a long-term campaigner on the importance of everyone benefiting from digital technology. Prior to joining FutureDotNow, she was Director of Digital Society for BT Group, responsible for their digital and social inclusion strategies and cross-sector collaborations with government, civil society and other leading businesses.

Liz is Chair of Good Things Foundation, the UK’s largest charity focused on supporting digitally and socially excluded people to improve their lives through digital, and a trustee of the London Transport Museum. She sits on the Government’s Digital Skills Partnership Board and is a former publicly appointed Social Mobility Commissioner.

In 2019, Liz was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to digital literacy and social inclusion. In 2020 and 2021 she was named by Computer Weekly in the top thirty most influential women in UK tech and was a Women in Telecoms finalist at the 2020 World Communications Awards.