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Eileen Donahoe

  • Executive Director, Global Digital Policy Incubator
Encina Hall, C427 616 Jane Stanford Way Stanford, CA 94305-6055
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Biography

Eileen Donahoe is the Executive Director of the Global Digital Policy Incubator (GDPI) at Stanford University, FSI/Cyber Policy Center. GDPI is a global multi-stakeholder collaboration hub for development of policies that reinforce human rights and democratic values in digitized society. Areas of current research: AI & human rights; combatting digital disinformation; governance of digital platforms. She served in the Obama administration as the first US Ambassador to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, at a time of significant institutional reform and innovation. After leaving government, she joined Human Rights Watch as Director of Global Affairs where she represented the organization worldwide on human rights foreign policy, with special emphasis on digital rights, cybersecurity and internet governance. Earlier in her career, she was a technology litigator at Fenwick & West in Silicon Valley. Eileen serves on the National Endowment for Democracy Board of Directors; the Transatlantic Commission on Election Integrity; the World Economic Forum Future Council on the Digital Economy; University of Essex Advisory Board on Human Rights, Big Data and Technology; NDI Designing for Democracy Advisory Board; Freedom Online Coalition Advisory Network; and Dartmouth College Board of Trustees. Degrees: BA, Dartmouth; J.D., Stanford Law School; MA East Asian Studies, Stanford; M.T.S., Harvard; and Ph.D., Ethics & Social Theory, GTU Cooperative Program with UC Berkeley. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

 

publications

Conference Memos
August 2021

POMEPS Studies 43: Digital Activism and Authoritarian Adaptation in the Middle East

Author(s)
POMEPS Studies 43: Digital Activism and Authoritarian Adaptation in the Middle East

In The News

President Barack Obama at the “Challenges to Democracy in the Digital Information Realm" conference.
News

Barack Obama Addresses the Intersection of Online Disinformation, Regulation and Democracy at Stanford Event

At a conference hosted by the Cyber Policy Center and Obama Foundation, former U.S. President Barack Obama delivered the keynote address about how information is created and consumed, and the threat that disinformation poses to democracy.
Barack Obama Addresses the Intersection of Online Disinformation, Regulation and Democracy at Stanford Event
Renee DiResta giving introductory remarks with speakers seated at a table including Larry Diamond and Rashad Robinson
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Panelists at Obama Event Discuss Threats to Democracy in Digital Realm

During three panel discussions at the Cyber Policy Center, speakers discussed the challenges and potential solutions to disinformation and its often negative impact to democracy.
Panelists at Obama Event Discuss Threats to Democracy in Digital Realm
Global Flags
Blogs

Governments Aren’t Yet Serious About AI’s Risk to Human Rights

In the rush to develop national strategies on artificial intelligence, a new report finds, most governments pay lip service to civil liberties.
Governments Aren’t Yet Serious About AI’s Risk to Human Rights
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