Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Cindy Cohn is the Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. From 2000-2015 she served as EFF’s Legal Director as well as its General Counsel. Ms. Cohn first became involved with EFF in 1993, when EFF asked her to serve as the outside lead attorney in Bernstein v. Dept. of Justice, the successful First Amendment challenge to the U.S. export restrictions on cryptography.
Ms. Cohn has been named to TheNonProfitTimes 2020 Power & Influence TOP 50 list, honoring 2020's...
Associate Fellow in the Global Economy and Finance Program at Chatham House
Over the last 25 years of a four-decade career, Bennett Freeman has worked at the intersection of governments, international institutions, multinational corporations, responsible investors, and NGOs to establish global standards for corporate responsibility and accountability. A longstanding and innovative leader in the business and human rights arena, he has played critical roles in founding and building multi-stakeholder initiatives and coalitions to protect human rights and labor rights around the world.
Debra Miller Glass worked for more than 30 years in Washington, D.C. She is keenly interested in the current attempt by the Trump administration to make radical changes to the global order, to U.S. trade policy, and to fiscal policy. She received an A.B. in political science from U.C. Berkeley, and a Ph.D from Harvard University, has been on the Columbia University School of international and Public Affairs and the George Mason University Schar School of Public Policy faculties, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Co-President and Co-CEO of Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California (CCWA)
Philip W. Yun’s career has spanned the private and public sectors for the past 40 years, with experience in security affairs, foreign policy, diplomacy, international development, law, business, politics, and philanthropy. He is currently Co-President and Co-CEO of Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California (CCWA), a leading nonpartisan public forum based in San Francisco.
CCWA is the product of a merger between the World Affairs Council of Northern California, founded in 1947, and The Commonwealth Club of California, established in 1903. Combined, both organizations have been an...
