Alex Gladstein

Alex Gladstein is Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation. He has also served as Vice President of Strategy for the Oslo Freedom Forum since its inception in 2009. Alex’s writing and views on human rights and technology have appeared in media outlets across the world including The Atlantic, BBC, CNN, Fast Company, The Guardian, Monocle, NowThis, NPR, Quartz, TIME, WIRED, and The Wall Street Journal. He has spoken about HRF’s work at Berkeley, Cornell, MIT, Stanford, UPENN, the European Parliament, and Singularity University. He currently lives in San Francisco, and you can reach him at alex@hrf.org. In his work Alex has connected hundreds of dissidents and civil society groups with business leaders, technologists, journalists, philanthropists, policymakers, and others to promote free and open societies.