Mevan Babakar

Deputy Chief Executive & Chief Operating Officer (former)

Mevan was the founding head of Full Fact’s automated fact checking team, which went on to win the Google AI for Social Good Impact Challenge. Mevan joined Full Fact in 2014 after working at Cancer Research in digital. She helped build Bite the Ballot where she launched Britain’s first ever National Voter Registration Day. She graduated with a Masters in Bioengineering.