Angela Balakrishnan

Angela oversees the development and delivery of the ICO's strategic communication and engagement activities across the organisation, ensuring the ICO grows awareness of the value and impact its work; gathers insight to inform what it does; and influences behaviour on information rights - all contributing to the ICO's purpose to empower people through information. Before the ICO, she spent nine years in government communication, working on foreign affairs, international development and business. She first cut her teeth in comms at one of the UK's biggest charities – Cancer Research UK. She specialises in crisis communications and public awareness campaigns, helping to connect organisations' work with different audiences through storytelling and creative content. Prior to her comms career, she was a journalist working at The Guardian and for music magazines, also putting on gig club nights in Camden. She still lives for live music and enjoys transferring her joy for festivals and glitter to her two young sons.