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Elonnai Hickok

Managing Director - Global Network Initiative

Working groupExpert Group on AI Risk & Accountability
Stakeholder TypeCivil society
ONE AI Member

As Managing Director of the Global Network Initiative, Elonnai works to strengthen and grow a unique and impactful multi-stakeholder organization working for the advancement of freedom of expression and privacy. She has contributed to international policy initiatives and has presented worldwide on issues of digital rights and emerging technology and the counterbalancing of corporate, governmental, and individual interests and rights. She has developed research and written extensively on issues relating to artificial intelligence, privacy, cybersecurity, surveillance, and intermediary liability.

She currently serves as a member of a number of multi-stakeholder initiatives including as the co-chair of the Freedom Online Coalition Advisory Network, a member of the GIFCT Independent Advisory Committee, and as a member of the Christchurch Call Advisory Network. Formerly, Elonnai was a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Chief Operating Officer of the Centre for Internet & Society, India.

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