Elonnai Hickok is an independent expert examining how technology and policy can impact and benefit society. She has contributed to international policy initiatives and has presented worldwide on issues of digital rights and emerging technology and the counterbalancing of governmental and individual interests and rights. She has developed research and written extensively on issues relating to privacy, cybersecurity, surveillance,  intermediary liability, and artificial intelligence. 

 

She is a policy consultant with the University of Artez and AI4Dignity project at LMU Munich. Formerly, Elonnai was a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the chief operating officer of the Centre for Internet & Society, India. She has been a consultant with the Ranking Digital Rights project and the Open Society Foundations. Elonnai graduated from the University of Toronto, where she studied international development and political science.