Get involved
All techUK's work is led by our members - keep in touch or get involved by joining one of the five groups below.
Trade Working Group
The techUK Trade Working Group aids members in shaping the UK's digital trade policy, addressing bilateral trade negotiations, and engaging in WTO e-commerce talks. It also fosters techUK leadership in global settings such as WTO, OECD, UNCTAD, G7, G20.
UK-APAC Tech Forum
This Forum, which focuses on Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, and the ASEAN countries (+CPTPP countries), provides engagement opportunities with key stakeholders in government and business to drive new digital economy agreements, address barriers to digital market access and expand and demystify the growth of commercial networks in the region
UK-China Tech Forum
The Forum allows members to engage with government and business stakeholders from both the UK and China to discuss some of the key challenges and opportunities they see when operating in China (or the UK). The Forum acknowledges the geopolitical sensitivities of the UK-China relationship and looks to deepen collaboration in some of the non-politically sensitive areas of tech and trade.
UK-India Tech Forum
This Forum focuses on the tech and trade relationship between the UK and India, with the FTA expected to be signed in 2024. It provides an avenue for trade and investment concerns to be raised regarding companies that currently operate between the UK and India, and focuses on the opportunities in emerging tech between the UK and India
UK-Japan Tech Forum
Following the conclusion of the Hiroshima Accord & the CEPA, this Forum plays a key role in shaping the tech and trading relationship between the UK and Japan. The Forum also seeks to help companies, especially those in the emerging tech space, to expand and export into Japan, and vice-versa.
International Trade and Investment
The Trade and Export Committee has been set up to drive the Trade and Export programme and aims to help techUK members and the wider technology industry access support and market opportunities relating to their business and aspirations.
International Trade Export USA
A platform to understand export opportunities in the USA. Working with partners in the UK and US, this group will provide information on methods for companies to grow their presence in the market. Opportunities will range from delegations to international tenders, bespoke mentoring and information seminars for accessing the US market and provide a forum for companies to contribute to wider UK - USA tech trade policy discussions, including what the tech components of a future FTA may look like.
Upcoming events
Our team
Sabina Ciofu
Daniel Clarke
Oliver Alderson
Sabina Ciofu
Sabina Ciofu is Associate Director – International, running the International Policy and Trade Programme at techUK.
Based in Brussels, she leads our EU policy and engagement. She is also our lead on international trade policy, with a focus on digital trade chapter in FTAs, regulatory cooperation as well as broader engagement with the G7, G20, WTO and OECD.
As a transatlanticist at heart, Sabina is a GMF Marshall Memorial fellow and issue-lead on the EU-US Trade and Technology Council, within DigitalEurope.
Previously, she worked as Policy Advisor to a Member of the European Parliament for almost a decade, where she specialised in tech regulation, international trade and EU-US relations.
Sabina loves building communities and bringing people together. She is the founder of the Gentlewomen’s Club and co-organiser of the Young Professionals in Digital Policy. Previously, as a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Community, she led several youth civic engagement and gender equality projects.
She sits on the Advisory Board of the University College London European Institute, Café Transatlantique, a network of women in transatlantic technology policy and The Nine, Brussels’ first members-only club designed for women.
Sabina holds an MA in War Studies from King’s College London and a BA in Classics from the University of Cambridge.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Phone:
- +32 473 323 280
- Website:
- www.techuk.org
Daniel Clarke
Dan joined techUK as a Policy Manager for International Policy and Trade in March 2023.
Before techUK, Dan worked for data and consulting company GlobalData as an analyst of tech and geopolitics. He has also worked in public affairs, political polling, and has written freelance for the New Statesman and Investment Monitor.
Dan has a degree in MSc International Public Policy from University College London, and a BA Geography degree from the University of Sussex.
Outside of work, Dan is a big fan of football, cooking, going to see live music, and reading about international affairs.
- Email:
- [email protected]
Oliver Alderson
Oliver is the team assistant for the Policy and Public Affairs teams, joining techUK in November of 2023. He assists the teams admistrative support, communication, and event production.
Prior to working at techUK, Oliver studied at Swansea and Bristol universities, attaining a masters in Policy Research. During this time he competed in debating competitions around the country where he discussed and deliberated various policy issues. Between his studies Oliver acted as a student assistant in mental health research for the SMaRteN student network.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Phone:
- 07505 890 596
- LinkedIn:
- https://uk.linkedin.com/in/oliver-alderson-a51312180