Thomas Hughes is Director of the Oversight Board Administration, the independent body set up to make binding decisions on the most challenging content moderation issues on Facebook and Instagram. Thomas was previously the Executive Director of ARTICLE 19, an international human rights organisation that defends and promotes freedom of expression and information worldwide. Before that, Hughes was the Executive Director and founder of Diversity, an international advertising network for online news media in human rights-restricted countries and a co-founder of VirtualRoad.org, a secure hosting service that protects the websites of news media and civil society organisations. Prior to this, he has worked as the Deputy Director of the media development organisation International Media Support (IMS), and has also had roles with the European Commission, United Nations and Organization for Security Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Hughes has been an advisor on human rights to previous UK Foreign Secretaries and is a governor at the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD).