Head of Programmes and International Policy at Global Partners Digital
Joined on January 4, 2016
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Lea Kaspar heads Global Partner Digital‘s (GPD) programmatic portfolio and leads the organisation’s international policy arm. Since joining GPD in 2012, she has been managing projects at the intersection of human rights and digital communications, concentrating upon facilitating multistakeholder dialogue and effective civil society engagement in international forums and processes. She has developed and coordinated information sharing, capacity building, and advocacy initiatives at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), the Global Conference on Cyberspace (GCCS), NETmundial, the WSIS+10 Review process, the UN CSTD Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation (WGEC), and various processes of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
As the in-house expert on internet governance (IG), she works to contextualise and communicate the relevance of the evolution of the IG ecosystem to the broader community. As of November 2014, she has been a member of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG), where she serves as a civil society representative. At the national level, as a member of the UK Multistakeholder Group on Internet Governance (MAGIG), she has been participating in the consultation processes with the UK government on international internet policy discussions since March 2013. Lea also works closely with governments in the Freedom Online Coalition, for which GPD currently performs a secretariat function.
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