Authors

Shira A. Scheindlin is a senior United States district judge for the Southern District of New York.

Maria Medrano is the director of global policy for the Information Technology Industry Council.

Ellery Roberts Biddle is a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. She is the director of Global Voices Advocacy, an international citizen media project promoting free speech online.

Brian Bieron is executive director of the eBay Public Policy Lab.

Usman Ahmed is counsel at the eBay Public Policy Lab.

Anna Levy is a researcher and consultant focused on innovation, accountability politics and human rights.

Rushda Majeed is a consultant on institutional and policy reform. She has worked as a senior research specialist at Princeton University’s Innovation for Successful Societies (ISS).

Frank Mora is director of the Latin American and Caribbean Center and a professor at FIU.

Dr. Emily C. Saunders is a research coordinator with the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) at Vanderbilt University.

Jessica M. Brunelle is a Vanderbilt alumna and works in management consulting in Dallas, Texas.

Fred Ehrsam is cofounder and president of Coinbase. Previously, he was a foreign exchange trader at Goldman Sachs and has also analyzed portfolios at BlackRock, the largest asset manager in the world.

Jackie Hyland is senior investment analyst at Accion Venture Lab, a seed stage investment fund within Accion International.

Erik Stettler is the director of Socialatom Ventures, a seed fund that invests in global startups from Latin America.

Diego Molano Vega is Colombia’s Minister of Information Technology and Communications.