Marina Gibbs

Marina Gibbs is a Policy Director in Ofcom’s Network and Communications Group directing projects across the telecoms and postal sectors. Ms Gibbs has led a number of regulatory projects including telecoms market reviews, projects aimed at securing better outcomes for consumers of communications services as well as strategies aimed at ensuring the longer term sustainability of the universal postal service. Since 2022, Ms Gibbs has been leading Ofcom’s strategy for combatting telecoms scams through the use of both formal regulatory tools but also collaboration with stakeholders across the broader echo system aimed at securing a more joined up approach.

Prior to joining Ofcom in 2007, Ms Gibbs was a Partner with boutique strategy consulting firm Spectrum Strategy Consultants focused on the telecoms and media sectors where she advised telecoms operators, the investment community, regulators and policy makers globally on strategic issues ranging from the design and implementation of corporate strategies, to the undertaking of commercial due diligence of opportunities in the telecoms and tech sectors and the development of regulatory strategies for regulated entities and policy makers.

Ms Gibbs is a regular speaker at conferences and events and has had extensive international engagement with stakeholders in the sectors Ofcom regulates.

Ms Gibbs has also served as a lay non-executive director of the Legal Services Board, the oversight regulator for the legal profession in England and Wales and is currently a Trustee for GambleAware a charity focused on research, prevention and treatment of gambling harms.

Ms Gibbs has an MBA from the University of Bradford in the UK and a Bachelors and Masters degrees in applied modern languages from the University of Grenoble in France.