Peter oversees the election administration and communications at Democracy Club, including polling stations and candidate information. He previously spent far too much time at university, and holds a PhD in nineteenth-century British political history.

Will got involved with Democracy Club during the 2024 local and general elections madness by importing polling station data, and they've carried on since as part of the development team. They previously worked on community farms and market gardens in various roles.

Alongside helping out with operational support at Democracy Club, Ella is a freelance user researcher with significant experience in the public sector. She writes a blog, cyberwomen.co.uk, which aims to raise the visibility of women and non-binary people in tech. Other than that, she likes weightlifting, ballet and plants.

ResultsBot is a robot that helps us collect election results from reliable sources. Thanks to ResultsBot, we can supplement the work of our volunteers in collecting election results shortly after they are published. It was built by Sym and is maintained by the team. It is a very good robot.

Torsten is a non-executive director and senior media/data leader with more than two decades’ experience building large-scale digital products across the Guardian, Financial Times, CNBC, NewsCred, and Dods. He has led major platform transformations, managed multi-million-pound P&Ls, and overseen complex teams delivering political intelligence, editorial systems, and data services across the UK and Europe. As Chair of Democracy Club, Torsten provides strategic direction and governance oversight to strengthen the organisation’s resilience, technology choices, and long-term impact. His background spans product innovation, data strategy, and public-interest technology, and he has a longstanding commitment to civic participation through advisory, trustee, and community roles.

Susan is strategic communications, capacity building and governance consultant, working internationally to communicate complex law and policy issues within human rights, citizenship, international development and democratisation/elections. She has worked in Iraq with the Electoral Management Commission, UNAMI and is a member of the OSCE-ODIHR Election Experts database and experienced observer. She is Chair of Learning for Life UK and a Trustee of South London Botanical Institute.

James is a regulator, strategist and consultant working in telecommunications, infrastructure and innovation - currently as a leader in the Strategy team at Ofcom, the UK communications regulator. At Ofcom he leads across a range of cross-cutting and edge of remit policy questions, including developing a new regulatory regime for the BBC, early proposals for UK online safety protections and the launch of Ofcom's Open Data programme. He also has experience at boutique consultancies DG Cities, MTM London and DotEcon, developing strategies for clients including MHCLG, Google and Arts Council England.

A long-time admirer of Democracy Club, Jonathan is an experienced non-executive director, currently independent chair of his local council’s audit committee and a member of his police audit committee. He chairs the charity In2scienceUK and is an NED of Care City CIC. He also advises some other organisations who are using data cleverly in local government. His previous non-exec experience includes: trustee at mySociety and chair of their trading company - SocietyWorks; independent chair of the improvement and development board for local councils; non-exec chair of dxw. He was an adviser to FutureGov for 6 years. Previous full-time executive roles included commercial development director on the exec board of a large financial services business and deputy chief executive of a county council. He then spent ten years advising on leadership and business improvement in local government before taking on a portfolio of advisory and non-executive roles. Semi-retired, he enjoys travel, theatre, walking, and the interest and purpose that comes from supporting socially-motivated organisations.

Paul is the Director of Public Services at Faculty, the UK’s leading applied AI company. He was previously Chief Digital Officer at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities where he established the digital function and led reform to the Department’s digital services such in the planning system and across local government. Prior to that he led the government’s new data agenda as Director of Data in the Cabinet Office’s Government Digital Service, with responsibility for open data, data science in government, data infrastructure and data legislation. He has a background in public service innovation and reform in government, setting up Policy Lab the design-led team in Cabinet Office, and negotiated the G8 Open Data Charter during the UK Presidency and UK chair of the Open Government Partnership. He has had spells in Leicestershire County Council, the Home Office and the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit.