Speakers

Justine Roberts CBE is the Founder and Executive Chair of Mumsnet, one of the UK’s leading online communities, reaching around seven million monthly users. Mumsnet is known for combining practical advice and peer support with influential public campaigns, including on children’s use of social media, maternal health and miscarriage care. In 2011, Justine launched Gransnet, a sister site for the original baby-boomer generation, covering everything from relationships and culture to current affairs and grandparenting. Alongside her executive career, Justine has held a number of senior board roles, including Senior Independent Director at Admiral Insurance Group, and is currently a non-executive director of the English Football League. Mumsnet has won Online Comment Site of the Year at the Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards in both 2011 and 2014. Justine was named Institute of Internal Communication Communicator of the Year in 2014, EY Entrepreneur of the Year London and South in 2016, and one of EU-Startup’s Top 50 Most Influential Women in Startups and VC in 2017. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to the economy. Before founding Mumsnet, Justine wrote about football and cricket for the Daily Telegraph and The Times. Earlier in her career, she worked as an economist and strategist at investment bank, SG Warburg. Justine read PPE at New College, Oxford. She is the mother of four and two dogs, who mostly listen to her even less than the children do.