Ian Russell

Ian Russell is the father of Molly Russell. In November 2017, 14-year-old Molly Russell from north west London took her own life. Discovering that his daughter had been viewing thousands of images promoting suicide and self-harm, Ian began a campaign: to remove that harmful content from social media. In the first ever of such an instance, it was eventually confirmed that Molly’s death was caused by depression and the negative effectives of online content. As Chair of Trustees of the Molly Rose Foundation, Ian has since championed legislation in the UK and fought to hold Big Tech companies accountable for their pervasive harms to young people across the world.