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Digital exclusion, the Triple Bottom Line, and what leaders can do.
Freddie Quek on digital exclusion and the Triple Bottom Line — why 30% of people being offline affects all of us, and what leaders can do.
Digital & Technology Leader | Board Member | Researcher | Advisor | Mentor
Freddie Quek shares decades of leadership experience building global technology organisations. Learn practical lessons on engineering leadership, scaling businesses and digital transformation.
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Freddie Quek is a Research Associate at Henley Business School and an award-winning technology leader, advisor, and NED. A former CTO at Times Higher Education, he helped build major data-driven products, including the World University Rankings and the SDG Impact Dashboard.
With a career spanning RELX, Wiley, Solera, scaleups, and startups, Freddie has led large-scale digital transformations, pioneered early adoption of NoSQL, and delivered complex strategic initiatives across multiple industries. He has been recognised by Computer Weekly and CIO 100 as one of the UK’s top technology leaders and has won numerous industry awards for innovation and delivery.
Freddie is the founder of #JoiningTheDots, co-founder of TechLinkUkraine, and Chair of the BCS Digital Divide Specialist Group, driving national efforts to tackle digital exclusion. He serves on the boards of the University of Bristol, eLife, and the BCS Influence Board, and is a Fellow of BCS.
He holds master’s degrees from the London School of Economics and Henley Business School, is an Oxford alumnus, and is currently pursuing a Doctorate of Business Administration focused on the future of technology leadership.

Digital exclusion, the Triple Bottom Line, and what leaders can do.
Freddie Quek on digital exclusion and the Triple Bottom Line — why 30% of people being offline affects all of us, and what leaders can do.

A practical guide to digital exclusion and the Triple Bottom Line: why access, affordability and design matter, and what to do about them.