About the Democracy + Tech InitiativeThe Democracy + Tech Initiative creates policy practices that align global stakeholders toward tech and governance that reinforces, rather than undermines, open societies. It builds on the DFRLab's established track record and leadership in the open-source field, empowering global communities to promote transparency and accountability online and around the world. The Initiative examines how the tech that connects and informs people is funded, built, and governed, and how that affects the viability of rights-respecting and democratic societies around the world.Connective technologies are ubiquitous in modern life, and the ways in which governments use, promote, and regulate them is central to the global order. As many nations embrace an increasingly forceful authoritarian approach to these issues, the need for a powerful, coherent, and actionable democratic approach has never been greater.Democracy + Tech InitiativeD+T_ef5cef82-81ac-11ee-a5eb-1f731b83ea00Atlantic CouncilDriven by our mission of "shaping the global future together," the Atlantic Council is a nonpartisan organization that galvanizes US leadership and engagement in the world, in partnership with allies and partners, to shape solutions to global challenges.Digital Forensic Research LabThe Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) has operationalized the study of disinformation by exposing falsehoods and fake news, documenting human rights abuses, and building digital resilience worldwide.D+T LeadersRose JacksonInitiative Director ~ Rose Jackson is an entrepreneur and diplomat with 15+ years of experience strengthening democracy and defending human rights, leveraging technology for social impact, and building institutions to support democratic activists around the world. Jackson served as a foreign policy advisor in the U.S. Senate, chief of staff to the State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, and a senior advisor at the Open Society Foundations on U.S. security sector assistance. Before founding and serving as CEO of the social impact tech company, Beacon, Jackson led humanitarian and political development programs in revolutionary Libya and East Africa with the International Organization for Migration and the National Democratic Institute. She has served in numerous roles on U.S. political campaigns, and advised domestic and international organizations on movement organizing, responsible technology, and democratic institution-building. Graham BrookieDFRLab Senior Director ~ Graham Brookie is the director of the Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) and a national security and information expert with a decade of experience leading cross-disciplinary teams. During Brookie's tenure, the DFRLab has grown to be the third largest center at the Atlantic Council, and a home to more than 30 experts spread across six continents conducting groundbreaking research, shaping public policy, setting industry standards for analysis, and promoting diverse communities of #DigitalSherlocks around the world. Prior to the Atlantic Council Brookie served in a number of positions at the White House and National Security Council, including as an adviser for strategic communications, adviser to the assistant to the President for homeland security and counterterrorism, and in the East Asia, and Middle East and North Africa directorates. D+T Nonresident FellowsAnne Tsai BennettNonresident Fellow, Digital Forensic Research Lab ^^ Issues: Civil Society | Democratic Transitions | Human Rights ^^ Regions: China | East Asia | Indo-Pacific ^^ Languages: Chinese ^^ Anne Tsai Bennett has two decades of professional experience working on international democracy, human rights, and governance (DRG) issues, with an emphasis on China. She is the founder of High Ridge Strategies LLC, a strategic advisory consultancy working primarily with NGOs focused on DRG issues around the world. ^^ Prior to establishing her consulting practice in 2019, Tsai Bennett served for five years in the US Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor's Office of Global Programs, where she was the Deputy Office Director from 2016 to 2019, and the China Team Lead from 2014 to 2016. As Deputy Director, she helped lead a 60-person office overseeing DRL’s approximately 400 US government foreign-assistance funded programs around the world in partnership with over 300 NGOs, totaling approximately US$500 million. As the China Team Lead, she led the strategic planning and monitoring of DRL’s China programs, one of the bureau’s largest country program portfolios. Previously, she spent nearly a decade working on democracy and governance programs with the National Democratic Institute, and prior to that worked on China human rights and rule of law issues as one of the first professional staff members of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. Early in her career she was an investment banking analyst with Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong. She is based in Washington, DC. ^^ Tsai Bennett graduated from Harvard College with a bachelor of art's degree, cum laude, in East Asian Studies.Arjun BisenNonresident Fellow, Digital Forensic Research Lab ^^ Issues: Digital Policy | Disinformation | Politics & Diplomacy ^^ Regions: Australia | India | Indo-Pacific ^^ Arjun is a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. He also serves as an advisor to technology companies and governments on the opportunities and risks at the intersection of technology, social impact and foreign policy. He is currently a product policy advisor for Google Search, leading policy efforts on information quality, user safety, and countering disinformation. ^^ Prior to Google, he was a Fulbright scholar at Harvard Kennedy School, where he wrote his Masters thesis on tech and foreign policy, founded a political risk startup and designed a tech policy course taught at the Business, Engineering and Policy schools with Former SecDef Ash Carter. He also trained US election officials on cyber security, advised Twitter on content moderation, and worked as a Product Manager for the US Census Bureau’s data portal. ^^ He served as an Australian diplomat for eight years, drafting Australia's cyber strategy, focusing on geopolitics across the Indo-Pacific, negotiating trade agreements, and leading large UN aid programs on elections integrity, disability rights, and landmine clearance. He also undertook a diplomatic posting to Cambodia, reporting on human rights, domestic politics, and China’s diplomatic influence in South-East Asia. He sits on the board of nonprofits providing support indigenous and asylum seeker communities in Sydney.Brittan HellerNonresident Senior Fellow, Digital Forensic Research Lab ^^ Issues: Human Rights | Internet | Technology & Innovation ^^ Regions: Americas | General Africa | United KingdomCamille StewartFormer Nonresident Fellow, Digital Forensic Research Lab ^^ Issues: Cybersecurity | Digital Policy | Disinformation ^^ Regions: China | Israel | Western Europe ^^ Camille Stewart is an industry-recognized cybersecurity expert with experience building programs & solutions to address complex technology, cyber, and national security, and foreign policy challenges across the public and private sectors. Stewart serves as Deputy National Cyber Director for Technology and Ecosystem Security for the the Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD). ^^ Previously, Stewart was Head of Security & Privacy Policy for Google Play & Android, where she led security, privacy, election integrity, and dis/misinformation efforts for Google’s mobile business. ^^ Prior to Google, Camille managed cybersecurity, election security, tech innovation, and risk issues at Deloitte. Camille was appointed by President Barack Obama the Senior Policy Advisor for Cyber Infrastructure & Resilience Policy at the Department of Homeland Security. She was the Senior Manager of Legal Affairs at Cyveillance, a cybersecurity company after working on Capitol Hill. Her professional achievements have earned her recognition from a multitude of entities throughout her career including her being selected as 2020 Cyber Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the 2019 Cyber Security Women of the Year in the "Barrier Breaker" category, the 2018 New America Black American National Security & Foreign Policy Next Generation Leader, the 2018 National Urban League Cyber Connoisseur Honoree, a 2017 DMV 40 under 40 Trailblazer Award, and the 2016 Women in Technology Rising Star Award. ^^ Camille serves on the Board of Directors for The International Foundation for Electoral Systems, GirlSecurity, and on the Advisory Board for Women of Color Advancing Peace, Security, & Conflict Transformation (WCAPS). You can find out more about Camille and her current projects atwww.CamilleStewart.com.Clara TsaoNonresident Senior Fellow, Digital Forensic Research Lab ^^ Issues: Cybersecurity | Defense Technologies | Disinformation | Entrepreneurship | Extremism | Internet | Internet of Things | Technology & Innovation | Terrorism ^^ Regions: Americas | China | Russia | United Kingdom | United States and Canada ^^ Clara Tsao is a nonresident fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. Clara is a national security and disinformation expert and technology entrepreneur currently serving as the co-founder and on the board of the Trust & Safety Professional Association and the Trust & Safety Foundation. Clara previously was the Senior Advisor for Emerging Technology at the Department of Homeland Security and the Chief Technology Officer of two U.S. Government task forces focused on countering foreign influence, election security, and homegrown extremism. Clara also serves as a nonresident expert at the German Marshall Fund, a senior advisor for the UN-backed initiative, Tech Against Terrorism, and the President/Chair of the White House Presidential Innovation Fellows Foundation. Clara has also held fellowships focused on national security and technology policy with the Mozilla Foundation and Google.Emma DayNonresident Fellow, Digital Forensic Research Lab ^^ Issues: Human Rights | Rule of Law | Technology & Innovation ^^ Regions: Europe & Eurasia | Indo-Pacific ^^ Emma Day is a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab and is a human rights lawyer, specializing in children’s rights and technology. She holds an LLM in international human rights law from the University of London and a second LLM in law and technology from University of California, Berkeley where she was a Fulbright scholar. She qualified as a lawyer in Canada in 2010. Day has been working on human rights issues for more than twenty years and lived in Eastern Africa for five years and in Southeast Asia for six. She is currently based in Portugal where she works remotely as an expert consultant on children’s rights and technology. She has a particular focus currently on maximizing the full spectrum of children’s rights and human rights within technology governance frameworks, and in human rights due diligence. ^^ Day is an alumna of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, and she is part of the European Data Protection Board support pool of experts.Erica KochiNonresident Fellow, Digital Forensic Research Lab ^^ Issues: Digital Policy | Human Rights | International Organizations ^^ Regions: Americas ^^ Erica co-founded and co-led UNICEF's Innovation Unit, a group of 70+ people using technology to improve the lives of children around the world. UNICEF Innovation’s technology programs have impacted over 15 million people directly and billions of children through our community health networks in 80+ countries. ^^ Erica also oversaw UNICEF's product partnerships with technology companies such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, and ARM. ^^ TIME Magazine selected her as one of the "World’s 100 Most Influential People" List in 2013. From 2017-2018, Erica co-chaired the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Human Rights and Technology, which focuses on the opportunities and risks of AI on society.Grace AbuhamadNonresident Fellow, Digital Forensic Research Lab ^^ Issues: Digital Policy | Internet | Technology & Innovation ^^ Regions: Middle East | South Asia | United States and Canada ^^ Grace is an applied research scientist at Element AI, a ServiceNow company. Grace has been in Montreal since graduate school, where her research at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) focused on algorithmic discrimination in consumer finance. ^^ Before that, Grace served as a Policy Specialist at the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) Office of International Affairs (OIA), where she coordinated policy on emerging technologies and supported bilateral engagements in South Asia. Prior to government service, Grace managed public policy and multi-stakeholder strategy for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), based in their Washington, DC office. ^^ Grace has a bachelor's degree from Wellesley College, and a master's degree from MIT.Isaac Stone FishVisiting Fellow, Digital Forensic Research Lab ^^ Issues: Economy & Business | Human Rights | Politics & Diplomacy Regions: China | East Asia | Taiwan ^^ Isaac Stone Fish is the CEO and founder of the research firm Strategy Risks, which quantifies corporate exposure to China. He is also a contributing columnist at the Washington Post, a visiting fellow at the German Marshall Fund, an on-air contributor to CBSN, and the author of a monthly column on China risk for Barron's. ^^ A fluent Mandarin speaker, Isaac lived in Beijing for six years. He previously served as a Beijing correspondent for Newsweek, Asia editor at Foreign Policy Magazine, and a senior fellow at the Asia Society. He is also a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Truman National Security fellow, an alumni of the World Economic Forum's Global Shapers program, and the author of America Second: How America’s Elites are Making China Stronger (Knopf, 2022).Jessica BatkeNonresident Fellow, Digital Forensic Research Lab ^^ Issues: Civil Society | Human Rights ^^ Regions: ChinaJochai Ben-AvieNonresident Fellow, Digital Forensic Research Lab ^^ Issues: Digital Policy | Human Rights | Technology & Innovation Regions: Americas |European Union | India ^^ Jochai Ben-Avie’s career has been centered at the intersection of technology and human rights, as a leader in global policy, advocacy, and philanthropy. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Connect Humanity which supports, catalyzes, and scales solutions to bring meaningful internet access to all. He also serves as a consultant advising some of the largest foundations working on internet policy, and is a Nonresident Fellow at the Atlantic Council, a Truman National Security Fellow, a World Economic Forum Global Shaper, and a Board Member of Code for Science & Society. ^^ Jochai was previously Mozilla’s Head of International Public Policy and lead of the Firefox maker’s open source funding arm, the Mozilla Open Source Support Program (MOSS). During his time at Mozilla, he scaled the policy team from a solely US focus to a global presence active in shaping legislation across six continents to build a better internet. Under his leadership, the MOSS program grew from a side-of-desk, opportunistic fund to a fully professionalized grants program that played a direct role in broadening access, increasing security, and empowering users of open source technology worldwide. ^^ Prior to Mozilla, Jochai was the inaugural policy and advocacy director at Access Now, a non-profit dedicated to defending and extending the digital rights of users at risk around the world. His work shaped, built out, and grew the organization’s footprint in the sector, helping it to become one of the largest global digital rights organizations. During his time at Access Now, he co-founded RightsCon, the premier global conference on the intersection of technology and human rights, and RedLatAm, the largest network of digital rights organizations in Latin America. ^^ Jochai has also worked in educational policy and terrorism and reconciliation, in addition to his experience in global internet policy and philanthropy. He was privileged to receive his education at Bard College at Simon's Rock where he graduated summa cum laude and the University of Oxford's Lincoln College.Kat DuffyFormer Nonresident Senior Fellow, Digital Forensic Research Lab ^^ Issues: Civil Society | Internet | Technology & Innovation ^^ Kat Duffy was a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab the Director of the Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web. ^^ She advises companies, governments, and international nongovernmental organizations on building socially responsible business practices within the technology sector, developing strategies to align emerging technologies with democratic norms and human rights, and implementing best practices for civil-society engagement in the tech and human-rights space. Through her previous work at the US State Department and in the nonprofit sector, Duffy has overseen the implementation of more than a hundred million dollars in foreign assistance and philanthropic programming designed to support democracy, rights, and governance initiatives across the globe, with a particular focus on digital rights, digital safety, civic tech, and tech platform social accountability. She served for five years on the board of directors of the Global Network Initiative, where she helped drive the expansion and diversification of nongovernmental organization constituency participants, and also served as an expert advisor for the World Economic Forum’s Partnering with Civil Society in the Fourth Industrial Revolution Initiative. ^^ Duffy received her bachelor’s from Yale University and her juris doctorate from the University of Michigan. She has lived and worked in Spain, South Africa, Colombia, Cuba, and Tunisia.Katie HarbathNonresident Senior Fellow, Digital Forensic Research Lab ^^ Issues: Digital Policy | Elections | Technology & Innovation ^^ Regions: Europe & Eurasia | India | United States and Canada ^^ Katie Harbath is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab and a global leader at the intersection of elections, democracy, civic, and tech. She is the founder and CEO of Anchor Change – a civic tech strategies firm focused on developing solutions at the intersection of tech, policy, and business focusing on global issues related to democracy, elections, and civic engagement online. ^^ Prior to starting her own firm, she was a public policy director at Facebook where, over the course of ten years, she was credited with building out and leading a 30-person global team responsible for managing elections. She also played a significant role in building another team of over 30 people that work to get governments and elected officials around the world – at the local, regional, and national levels -- to use Facebook and Instagram as a way to connect and engage with constituents.Katherine MaherNonresident Senior Fellow, Digital Forensic Research Lab ^^ Digital Policy Media Technology & Innovation Regions: Middle East | Syria | United States and Canada ^^ Katherine Maher is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab and former chief executive officer (CEO) and executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, which owns and operates Wikipedia and various other free knowledge projects. She is an appointed member of the US Department of State's Foreign Affairs Policy Board, where she advises the secretary of state on the intersection of technology, democracy, and human rights. ^^ As CEO of Wikimedia Foundation, Maher was responsible for the success of Wikipedia, one of the world’s most popular web platforms. Over the course of seven years, she led Wikimedia’s growth in new and emerging markets, grew global site readership, and reversed decades-long declines in core contributors. She steered Wikimedia through the misinformation crisis of the late 2010s and led Wikipedia to its highest brand trust since its founding, doubling the Foundation’s fundraising capacity and raising Wikimedia's first endowment. ^^ Prior to joining the Wikimedia Foundation, Maher was among the leading practitioners of the intersection of technology, human rights, democracy and international development. She served as advocacy, strategy, and communications director for the international digital-rights organization Access Now, focusing on global issues related to freedom of expression, access to information, and privacy. Before Access Now, Maher was an information and communications technology (ICT) innovations specialist at the World Bank; ICT program officer at the National Democratic Institute; and innovation and communication officer at UNICEF, where she was a founding member of the UNICEF Innovation team. ^^ Maher is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a World Economic Forum young global leader, and a security fellow at the Truman National Security Project. She is on the board of directors for the Center for Technology and Democracy, Consumer Reports, the Digital Public Library of America, and System.com, as well as a trustee of the American University of Beirut. She received her bachelor’s degree in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies in 2005 from New York University’s College of Arts and Science, after studying at the Arabic Language Institute of the American University in Cairo, Egypt, and at the Institut français d’études arabes de Damas in Damascus, Syria.Moira WhelanNonresident Senior Fellow, Founding Partner, BlueDot Strategies, Digital Forensic Research Lab ^^ Issues: Crisis Management | Disinformation | Entrepreneurship | Media | National Security | Women ^^ Moira Whelan is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab). Moira is a founding partner of BlueDot Strategies and specializes in international engagement and technology. Moira has more than 15 years in senior positions at the forefront of building and executing communications strategies in the nonprofit and national security community. ^^ Moira served as the U.S. State Department's Deputy Assistant Secretary for Digital Strategy under President Obama, where she oversaw the flagship social media platforms to engage U.S. and international audiences and led multiple teams to guide the communications approach on major U.S. initiatives. ^^ Before joining USAID, Moira worked at the Department of Homeland Security where she directed the National Joint Information Center and also served as Chief of Staff in the Office of Gulf Coast Rebuilding. ^^ Moira was a founding member of the the National Security Network, a nonprofit advocacy organization. She has held the position of communications director both at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and, prior to that, on the House Committee on Homeland Security Democratic Staff. Moira started her career in editorial and legislative outreach roles at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). ^^ Moira is a graduate of Regis University in Denver, Colorado, and completed her coursework for a master's degree in international relations at Old Dominion University. Moira is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She volunteers as a board member for the Digital Diplomacy Coalition, and she likes to help out at her children's schools as often as she can.Naima Green-RileyNonresident Fellow, Digital Forensic Research Lab ^^ Issues: Disinformation |Media | Politics & Diplomacy ^^ Regions: China | Indo-Pacific ^^ Naima Green-Riley is a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. She is also an assistant professor in the Department of Politics and at the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Green-Riley specializes in Chinese foreign policy with a focus on public diplomacy and the global information space. ^^ Green-Riley's academic work intersects with her contributions to global development and diplomacy. She is a member of the board of directors of Oxfam America. Before pursuing her PhD, she was a Pickering fellow and a foreign service officer at the US Department of State. Green-Riley was the public affairs officer at the US Consulate General in Alexandria, Egypt during the Arab Spring from 2011 to 2013. She also served as a consular officer at the US Consulate General in Guangzhou, China from 2014 to 2015. She is a Schmidt Futures 2020 International Strategy fellow and she was featured on New America’s 2020 list of Black American national security and foreign policy next generation leaders. ^^ Green-Riley's writing has been published in Security Studies, the Journal of Experimental Political Science, and various public-facing outlets, including the Monkey Cage blog at the Washington Post, the Emerging Voices on the New Normal in Asia series of the National Bureau of Asian Research, the Diplomat, and the Root. She is a 2017 Ford Foundation predoctoral fellow and a 2020 International Policy Scholars Consortium and Network scholar. ^^ Green-Riley’s work has been supported by the USC Center on Public Diplomacy, the Morris Abrams Award in International Relations, the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School, and the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. It has also been supported by several interdisciplinary centers at Harvard, including the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Center for American Political Studies, the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, and the Harvard Experimental Working Group. ^^ Green-Riley received a bachelor's degree in international relations with honors from Stanford University. Moreover, she was a Belfer Center International and Global Affairs fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, where she graduated with a master's degree in public policy. She earned a PhD in political Science from the Department of Government at Harvard University. Green-Riley is proficient in Mandarin Chinese, and she also has an intermediate-level knowledge of Arabic. She is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group and the National Committee on US-China Relations, and she is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.Nanjala NyabolaNonresident Senior Fellow, Digital Forensic Research Lab ^^ Issues: Digital Policy | Elections | Politics & Diplomacy ^^ Regions: Africa | European Union | United States and CanadaNewton Henry Campbell Jr.Nonresident Fellow, Digital Forensic Research Lab ^^ Issues: Digital Policy | Space | Technology & Innovation ^^ Regions: United States and Canada ^^ Newton Campbell Jr. is a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab and the director of space programs at the Australian Remote Operations for Space and Earth Consortium. Campbell began his career supporting US Department of Defense (DOD) research programs, primarily with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. For ten years, he served as principal investigator and technical lead of multiple DOD research programs, developing new technologies in the domains of internet privacy, Internet of Things, and cyber-physical systems. During this time, Campbell also completed his PhD in computer science at Nova Southeastern University. After DOD, Campbell served as an artificial intelligence (AI) subject matter expert for the NASA Langley Research Center Office of the Chief Information Officer Data Science Team. In this role, he focused on programs in urban air mobility, geomagnetism, virtual reality, AI ethics, high-performance computing for computational physics, and space radiation effects on human biology. ^^ Campbell is known in the United States for coordinating science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) outreach activities with schools and media groups in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan area and at universities nationwide. He has served in advisory or fellowship roles with many STEM and legal policy groups, including the Planetary Society, the Philosophical Society of Washington, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, University of Colorado Boulder Law School, and American University’s Washington College of Law. Lab. Within these groups, he serves as an expert on space, climate change, and ethical artificial intelligence. Campbell is also a member of the Schusterman Philanthropy Foundation REALITY network, the French-American Foundation, and the Australian-American Leadership Dialogue, representing young US technology leaders in space and AI in each group.Oumou LyNonresident Fellow, Digital Forensic Research Lab ^^ Issues: Cybersecurity | Digital Policy | Disinformation Regions: European Union | United States and Canada | Western Europe ^^ Oumou Ly is a nonresident fellow at the Digital Forensic Research Lab. Ly is also Senior Advisor for Technology and Ecosystem Security at the White House and a resident fellow at the Harvard Law School's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, where she studies and develops programming around a cross-section of complex cybersecurity and internet governance issues, including disinformation. She hosts a web series titled The Breakdown, regularly provides media commentary on these issues, and has published in The Hill. ^^ Prior to joining the Berkman Klein Center, Oumou was an aide on Senate Democratic Leader Charles E. Schumer's national security team, where she advised on the defense budget and industrial base issues, as well as homeland security policy. Oumou holds an MSc degree from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor of Science from Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, California. Oumou is a security fellow with the Truman National Security Project.Rachel GillumNonresident Fellow, Digital Forensic Research Lab ^^ Issues: Digital Policy | Human Rights | National Security Regions: United States and Canada ^^ Rachel Gillum is a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab and a leader with experience driving strategic initiatives and solutions to address complex geopolitical challenges within the US government, multinational corporations, and academia. ^^ Gillum is vice president of ethical and humane use of technology at Salesforce where she leads the global policy team. She and her colleagues work to put ethics and privacy at the center of product design and product use policies to ensure Salesforce technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), are not used for harm and uphold basic human rights. She manages the company's Ethical Use Advisory Council -- a group that includes international experts from the United Nations, Freedom House, academic institutions, and other organizations. ^^ The US Chamber of Commerce appointed Gillum as a commissioner on its AI Commission on Competition, Inclusion, and Innovation. The Commission convenes thought leaders with experience in government, industry, and civil society to develop durable, bipartisan AI policy solutions to ensure the United States continues to lead in innovation while fostering fairness and upholding human rights. ^^ Gillum is also an affiliated scholar at Stanford University and the author of several academic works. ^^ Gillum previously worked alongside former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, and former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates as a senior director at RiceHadleyGates LLC, where she and her team assisted chief executive officers and senior executives at major tech companies in meeting key strategic and geopolitical challenges. Gillum led the firm’s portfolio of technology and venture capital companies as senior director of the Silicon Valley Office. Her global experience stems from her time working as an intelligence analyst within the US government as well as leading major research projects in international relations at Stanford University. ^^ Gillum is a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations and a security fellow at the Truman National Security Project. She is the co-founder and former co-director of Truman's diversity initiative, aimed at supporting and advancing underrepresented minorities in the international security profession. Gillum received her doctorate and master’s degrees from Stanford University and her bachelor's degree from the University of Washington in Seattle.Sabeen MalikNonresident Fellow, Digital Forensic Research Lab ^^ Issues: Digital Policy | Economy & Business | Technology & Innovation ^^ Regions: European Union | Indo-Pacific | The Gulf ^^ Sabeen Malik is the Vice President of Global Government Affairs and Public Policy at Rapid7. Malik has spent her education and career pursuits becoming a thought leader on digital economy and tech policy issues, law and economic development, innovation economies, and next-generation economic trends. ^^ She has worked in the private and public sector including at Thumbtack, Google, and the United States Department of State where she served as a senior tech advisor to the Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment. Along with a passion for global trends in business and economic issues, she also is an expert on bridging differences with the public and private sector to create international partnerships to solve global problems. Malik serves on several boards and is a Truman National Security Fellow, Aspen Socrates Fellow, and a member of the German Marshall Young Transatlantic Network. She has spoken at the World Bank, the UN, and the White House.Sarah OhNonresident Fellow, Digital Forensic Research Lab ^^ Issues: Crisis Management | Digital Policy | Disinformation | Human Rights | Technology & Innovation ^^ Sarah Oh is a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab and founding team member of T2, a public short-text platform that aims to put responsible design first. ^^ Oh has more than a decade of experience, most recently serving as human rights advisor at Twitter and leading Facebook's crisis-response efforts in the Asia Pacific and South Asia as a senior member of the Strategic Response Team within the office of the chief executive officer and chief operating officer. In this role, she oversaw Facebook's response to the Rohingya refugee crisis in Myanmar. ^^ Before Facebook, Oh collaborated with civil society in Myanmar to address online hate speech and promote digital rights during the country’s 'connectivity revolution.' Ahead of Myanmar’s 2015 elections, Oh established education programs and events to develop digital voter education tools that reached millions of voters online. ^^ Oh began her career at the National Democratic Institute where she served as the nonprofit’s inaugural Silicon Valley Partnerships Representative. In addition to establishing strategic relationships between tech companies and civic groups, she provided oversight on projects leveraging open data to help citizens engage in politics. She also organized legislative exchange programs for the House Democracy Partnership, a bipartisan commission of the US House of Representatives that convened legislators from emerging democracies to share strategies for accountability and transparency. ^^ Oh advises company executives, elected officials, and nonprofits on responsible business growth, equitable partnerships, atrocity prevention, conflict mediation, and transitional justice. She has worked on assignments focused on Southeast Asia, the Western Balkans, North Korea, West Africa, and Panama. ^^ Oh received her bachelor's degree with honors in political science from Northwestern University and was previously a visiting scholar at the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute at the University of California.Simin KargarNonresident Fellow, Digital Forensic Research Lab ^^ Issues: Cybersecurity | Disinformation | Human Rights | Media | Women ^^ Regions: Iran | Middle East | North Africa | Saudi Arabia | The Gulf ^^ Simin Kargar is a researcher on human rights and technology. Over the past decade, Kargar has worked with a variety of public and private stakeholders on the interrelations of technology, geopolitics, and human rights in repressive environments. At DFRLab, Kargar focuses on information warfare in the Middle East and the policy responses that it calls for. ^^ Kargar is currently a doctoral researcher at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University. Her research centers on the evolution of statecraft in the networked era. In particular, she investigates the ways that Iran and Saudi Arabia, as two regional powers, engage in subversive activities through emerging technologies and complicate the regional and international affairs.A powerful, coherent, and actionable democratic approach_ef5cf0ea-81ac-11ee-a5eb-1f731b83ea00To align global stakeholders toward tech and governance that reinforces, rather than undermines, open societies_ef5cf266-81ac-11ee-a5eb-1f731b83ea00OpennessTechnologyCoherenceDemocracyActionEmpowermentCommunityTransparencyAccountabilityPolicy PracticesCreate policy practices_ef5cf3e2-81ac-11ee-a5eb-1f731b83ea00The Democracy + Tech Initiative is designed to: Human RightsCenter human rights and democracy in tech and policy debates_ef5cf54a-81ac-11ee-a5eb-1f731b83ea001DirectionShape what happens next by looking beyond the current tech and democracy flash points_ef5cf6b2-81ac-11ee-a5eb-1f731b83ea002Stakeholders & EquitiesEnsure decisions about global tech include equities and stakeholders around the world_ef5cf892-81ac-11ee-a5eb-1f731b83ea003Communities & IssuesConnect and align siloed communities and issues in government, industry, and civil society_ef5cfa04-81ac-11ee-a5eb-1f731b83ea004GovernmentsIndustryCivil SocietyExpertise, Diversity & LeadershipElevate a new generation of diverse leaders with crosscutting expertise to shape policy and industry outcomes_ef5cfb6c-81ac-11ee-a5eb-1f731b83ea0052023-11-11https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/programs/digital-forensic-research-lab/democracy-and-tech-initiative/OwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net