Executive Director at Global Partners Digital
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Andrew is a recognised international expert on internet policy issues, including freedom of expression, privacy and security. He has worked in the field of human rights for over twenty years and has been an expert advisor to international organisations such as the Council of Europe, Commonwealth, UNDP and UNESCO as well as national governments. He has published widely on different aspects of internet policy, freedom of expression and privacy; has written guides on assessing the impact of development programmes on human rights policy for UNDP and UNESCO, and made strategic assessments of future trends for European governments. He is a management board member of the European Council on Foreign Relations; Deputy Chair of the Sigrid Rausing Trust; Chair of the charity Global Dialogue and chair of International Media Support in Denmark.
Areas of interest: human rights and free expression standards and enforcement on and offline; internet governance; political economy analysis; approaches to assessment and evaluation.
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