Samantha Woolfe

Executive Director, INHOPE

Samantha Woolfe is Executive Director of INHOPE, the global network of 58 hotlines in 53 countries that work to detect and remove child sexual abuse material online. She has worked in internet safety for more than twenty years: as a lobbyist on internet safety issues in Westminster, London, then Washington, DC, with FOSI, as a consultant to ICMEC and then with the European Commission. She joined INHOPE full time over a decade ago first as a policy officer and then to expand the network of hotlines and build partnerships, and was appointed Executive Director in October 2025. She is based in Paris.