GLOBAL NETWORK INITIATIVE - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the United Nations Global Pulse Advisory Group
- Resident Fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School
Chinmayi Arun is a resident fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School and an affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center of Internet & Society at Harvard University. She has served on the faculties of two of the most highly regarded law schools in India from 2010 onwards, and was the founder Director of the Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University Delhi. She was a Fellow of the Berkman Klein Center of Internet & Society at Harvard University from 2017-2019 and a faculty associate of the Center prior to that. She is also an expert affiliated with the Columbia Global Freedom of Expression Project.
Chinmayi is a member of the United Nations Global Pulse Advisory Group on the Governance of Data and AI, and of UNESCO India's Media Freedom Advisory Group. She has been consultant to the Law Commission of India and member of the Indian government's multistakeholder advisory group for the India Internet Governance Forum in the past. Her recent writing has focused social media governance, on online hate speech and on the impact of AI and algorithms on human rights in the Global South.
Deirdre K. Mulligan is a Professor in the School of Information at UC Berkeley, a faculty Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, and a co-Director of the Algorithmic Fairness & Opacity Group, and a faculty advisor to the Center for Technology, Society & Policy. Mulligan's research explores legal and technical means of protecting values such as privacy, freedom of expression, and fairness in emerging technical.
Professor Eduardo Bertoni (PhD, Buenos Aires University) is currently the Representative of the Regional Office for South America of the Inter American Institute of Human Rights. He was the first Director of the Access to Public Information Agency (AAIP) which is the Argentine Data Protection and Access to Information Authority. He was the founder and the first director of the Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information (CELE) at Palermo University School of Law, Argentina. He was the Executive Director of the Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF) until May, 2006. Previously, he was the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights at the Organization of American States (2002-2005). Teaching Fellow at the Human Rights Institute at Columbia University School of Law (2001). Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow (2012-13) at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Former member of the advisory boards of the Human Rights Initiative (Open Society Foundations), the Media Legal Defence Initiative, the Freedom of Information Advocates Network (FOIAnet), among others. Dr. Bertoni has also worked as an advisor to the Department of Justice and Human Rights in Argentina. He is an Argentinean lawyer and holds a Masters in International Policy and Practice from the Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University. Prof. Bertoni currently teaches at Buenos Aires University School of Law and New York University School of Law (Global Clinical Professor). He published several opinion pieces on democracy and human rights in leading newspapers in the Americas and has written several publications on judicial reforms, international criminal law and human rights & Internet.
Job Titles:
- Senior Operations and Policy Associate
Idan handles GNI's day-to-day operations including finance, travel, and membership processes. She also supports GNI policy & learning activities, including by leading GNI's work on network disruptions and assisting with the company assessment process.
Before joining GNI, Idan worked with communities in Morocco and the Federated States of Micronesia to build sustainable youth development programming and improve school administration. Idan's experience also includes work in women's health and transitional democracy.
Idan earned her Bachelor of Arts from Tulane University, where she graduated summa cum laude with a degree in International Relations and Art History.
As Executive Director, Jason leads a dynamic, multi-stakeholder, human rights collaboration, building consensus for the advancement of freedom of expression and privacy among technology companies, academics, human rights and press freedom groups and investors. Jason previously served as Deputy Director and Policy Director at GNI.
Prior to joining GNI, Jason was a Special Advisor at the U.S. Department of State, where he led the Internet Freedom, Business, and Human Rights section in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. In that role, Jason worked with colleagues across the U.S. government, counterparts in other governments, and stakeholders around the world to promote and protect human rights online.
Jason is a graduate of Northwestern University and Yale Law School. Between degrees, he served as a Peace Corps volunteer and later led an innovative land titling and conservation project in rural Guatemala. After law school, he worked as a law clerk for the Honorable Raymond J. Dearie in the U.S. Federal District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and as an Associate at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP.
Job Titles:
- Partner at UK Firm Howard Kennedy
Mark Stephens, CBE has served as the Independent Board Chair of GNI since 2014.
A partner at UK firm Howard Kennedy, Mark has undertaken some of the most important freedom of expression and privacy cases in the United Kingdom and around the world. His practice focus spans international, appellate and complex litigation, constitutional and human rights cases, intellectual property, media regulation, defamation, privacy, art and cultural property, data protection, freedom of information, and international arbitration.
In addition to representing high-profile individuals, he has been retained by Governments, among them the Republic of Cyprus, Jamaica, Libya, Mauritius and the Russian Republic, and has litigated in countries as diverse as Antigua, Australia, France, India, Iraq, Iran, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore and the United States.
Mark sits on the boards of Internews and Index of Censorship, he is a trustee of the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute, and is a trustee and former President of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association.
Job Titles:
- Operations and Program Associate
Montserrat (Montse) works on the design and delivery of GNI's operations and projects. As part of this portfolio, she implements and manages GNI's grant-funded programs and projects.
A/Prof Lennon Yao-Chung Chang is currently an Associate Professor, Cyber Risk and Policy, in the School of Information Technology at Deakin University, Australia. He was awarded his PhD in Law from the Regulatory Institutions Network at the Australian National University. He holds a Master degree in Criminology and a Bachelor in Law, both from National Taipei University, Taiwan. He is the founder and President of the Australasian Taiwan Studies Association, a charitable non-profit organisation in Australia. He is the Vice Chairman of the Asia Pacific Association of Technology and Society which he co-founded in 2012. He is also the founder and Director of Cyberbaykin: Myanmar Cyber Security Awareness campaign and a member of the Oceania Cyber Security Centre. His research interests focus on the intersection of law and technology, cybercrime and cyber security, co-production of cyber security, disinformation campaigns and foreign interference, especially in the Indo-Pacific region. He is currently researching disinformation, co-production of cyber security and internet vigilantism in the Indo-Pacific region. He is also working with governments and NGOs in ASEAN countries on research and training programs to build cyber security capacity and cyber security awareness. He is often invited by TV and news media, including New York Times, Reuters, ABC, BBC and South China Morning Post, to comment on cybercrime and cyber-attack events.
Before joining Deakin, he was a senior lecture in Criminology at Monash University and an assistant professor in Criminology at City University of Hong Kong. He also worked as a project manager in the Science and Technology Law Centre, Institute for Information Industry in Taiwan.
Job Titles:
- Journalist from Pakistan
- Senior Policy and Communications Associate
Ramsha is responsible for organizing and spearheading activities and outputs of GNI's Policy Committee, working in collaboration with GNI policy staff. She also plays a leading role in creating, implementing, and overseeing internal and external communications for the GNI.
As an award-winning journalist from Pakistan, Ramsha has extensively reported and researched on technology and human rights for national and international platforms. She has produced investigative work on an expansive list of topics relating to internet rights; mis/disinformation, platform regulation, digital censorship, surveillance, and tech policy. Ramsha has contributed to policy initiatives on internet governance in South Asia and has been invited to share her insight on related issues at various global conferences such as RightsCon.
Ramsha recently completed a joint Erasmus Mundus M.A. in Journalism, Media and Globalisation on a full scholarship from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) in The Netherlands, and Aarhus University in Denmark.
Job Titles:
- Membership and Learning Associate