Peter Robbins
Chief Executive, Internet Watch Foundation
Peter joined the Metropolitan Police Service in 1971 and completed his police career in 2002 as the Borough Commander for Hackney. During his service he worked in the Obscene Publications Branch at Scotland Yard and he liaised regularly with Child Protection Units. He specialised in inner city policing and public disorder events and acted as an independent police advisor to the Independent Electoral Commission in South Africa in 1994. He was awarded the Queens Police Medal (QPM) in 2001 for distinguished police service.
Peter was appointed Chief Executive of the IWF in April 2002 and has led the organisation's expansion from a membership base of just fifteen companies to over ninety and conversion from not-for-profit to charitable status. He has overseen major governance and role and remit reviews and a recent modernisation of the IWF's Board, stakeholder and consultation structures. He continues to foster the extensive partnerships on which the success of the IWF relies.
He is a member of the Executive Board of the UK Council for Child Internet Safety and a National Internet Crime Forum. He was a former member of the Home Secretary's Task Force on the Protection of Children on the Internet until it was superseded by the new UK Council for Child Internet Safety. He chaired a national Search Provider Group on behalf of the Government which culminated in the publication of a good practice guide for search providers and consumers. He regularly presents at events relating to potentially illegal online content and frequently speaks to the media at home and abroad.
Peter was awarded the OBE in the Queen's 2008 New Years Honour's list for services to Children and Families.
Appearances
- State of the Net 2010 Conference January 27, 2010
Biography last updated January 18, 2010