Fellowships

Sasha Havlicek is a social and policy entrepreneur who, for the last two decades, has incubated and scaled global initiatives to counter the rise of weaponised hate, disinformation and extremism, on- and offline. As founder of the leading global ‘think and do tank’, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), she has led the build-out of ISD’s advanced digital analytics capability, designed to detect and mitigate information threats to democracy, public safety and national security. Spearheading ISD’s extensive partnerships with governments, cities, businesses and communities, Sasha oversees the organisation’s global teams delivering research, policy advisory support, training, digital literacy and communications programming. 

Sasha has advised a range of governments at the highest levels, has testified before US Congress and the UK Parliament, and is a regular commentator in the media (CNN, BBC, Channel 4 News and other networks). She is a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the Advisory Boards of the Global Internet Forum on Counter-Terrorism, the Christchurch Call and the Global Partnership for Action against Tech Facilitated Gender Based Violence. She is a founding board member of the Forum on Information and Democracy and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Coalition on Internet Safety.

David Kaye teaches public international law, human rights law, human rights and technology and directs the International Justice Clinic at UCI Law. A former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, he is the U.S. Independent Expert to the European Commission for Democracy through Law (“Venice Commission”), a member of the High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom, and an international board member of ARTICLE 19. In 2025-2026, David was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania, and in 2023-2024 he was the Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in Public International Law at Lund University, Sweden. He also holds affiliations at Lund’s Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, the Bonavero Institute for Human Rights at the University of Oxford, and the Institute for Information Law at the University of Amsterdam School of Law. He publishes regularly on international law topics, and his 2019 book, Speech Police: The Global Struggle to Govern the Internet (Columbia Global Reports), explores the ways in which companies, governments and activists struggle to define the rules for online expression.