Maria Farrell

A graduate of University College Dublin, the Dublin Institute of Technology and the London School of Economics, Maria Farrell has worked in technology policy for over twenty years, including at The World Bank, ICANN, the International Chamber of Commerce (Paris), the Confederation of British Industry, and The Law Society of England and Wales. She has written for The Guardian, Conversationalist, New European, Slate, Medium, the Irish Times and Irish Independent, and appeared as a tech expert on BBC, Sky News, NBC and TRT.

Her viral 2024 article "We need to rewild the internet", written with technologist Robin Berjon, was selected for the French magazine Philosophie’s special edition of key ideas for 2025, and the 2025 "Best American Science and Nature Writing". Maria's book "Rewild and Resist: How ecology can tame Big Tech to grow a world we want to live in" will be published in the US in 2026.