Felicity Ruby is the ThoughtWorks Director of Global Internet Policy. From 2008-2013 she was Senior Advisor to Australian Greens Senator Scott Ludlam who held the Communications portfolio and successfully fought data retention and internet censorship proposals, as well as supporting Australian citizen Julian Assange. Prior to this she headed the UN Office for the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, was a policy adviser at the UN Development Fund for Women and at Greenpeace International.