Eirliani Abdul Rahman

A Senior Fellow at Georgetown University, Dr. Eirliani Abdul Rahman holds a doctorate in public health from Harvard University. She is concurrently a Research Affiliate at the University of Cambridge’s Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy. She was a member of the inaugural cohort of the Harvard Students in AI program hosted by the Berkman Klein Center and a former New America Open Technology Institute Fellow. From its inception in 2016, she was a founding member of Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council as an expert on child online safety. In December 2022, Eirliani made global headlines following her resignation from the council, speaking out against the meteoric rise in hate speech after Elon Musk’s purchase of the platform. Her work has been profiled by the BBC, CBC, NPR, Slate, Harvard Public Health, the Sunday Times, and Business Insider. Her articles have been published by New America, Newsweek, Harvard Public Health, Chatham House and the German Council on Foreign Relations.