Director of Operations
David Barron works for the EDAA as Director of Operations, bringing with him valuable experience of advertising self-regulation through his work at the European Advertising Standards Alliance since early 2011. In this capacity, David played an instrumental role in shaping the EU Self-Regulatory Programme for Online Behavioural Advertising, particularly regarding the set-up of the EDAA and its operations to-date. In addition, David has a particular interest in, and knowledge of the functioning of national self-regulatory organisations. Having worked on several important self-regulatory issues, David has developed a broad knowledge of effective self-regulation in multiple sectors which is a considerable asset to EDAA in further rolling out the Programme. David graduated from the University of Bristol in 2010, where he read Modern Languages (French and Italian).