Kelly Tallon

Kelly Tallon is the Executive Manager of Industry Compliance & Enforcement at the Australian Office of the eSafety Commissioner (eSafety). Her branch leads eSafety’s work to improve online services’ systems and processes through Industry Codes and Standards, transparency reporting against the Government’s Basic Online Safety Expectations, and roll out of the new Social Media Minimum Age.

Kelly joined eSafety in early 2019 and has held a variety of legal, policy and strategy positions across the organisation, including leading the development of an age verification roadmap, position papers on generative AI and recommender systems, and many of eSafety’s policy submissions.

Prior to joining eSafety, Kelly worked in NGO and government roles at the intersection of technology, education, criminal justice and children’s rights. She holds law degrees from Harvard Law School, where she participated in the cyberlaw clinic at the Berkman Klein Centre for Internet & Society, and from the University of New South Wales, where she studied media and technology law with the support of a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship.