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Eileen Donahoe

Human Rights Watch
Director of Global Affairs
Silicon Valley
Eileen Donahoe is Director of Global Affairs at Human Rights Watch where she represents the organization worldwide on human rights foreign policy, with particular focus on digital rights, cybersecurity and Internet governance. She previously served as the first US Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. She is an affiliate at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. She is a member of the Freedom Online Coalition working group on Freedom & Security and a Co-Chair of the NETmundial Initiative. In her earlier career, Eileen was a technology litigator at Fenwick & West in Silicon Valley. She holds a B.A. from Dartmouth, an M.T.S. from Harvard, an M.A. in East Asian studies from Stanford, J.D. from Stanford Law School, and a Ph.D. in Ethics and Social Theory from GTU at UC Berkeley. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.