Juan Ortiz Freuler is an internet governance researcher and human rights advocate ,as well as a PhD candidate at the Annenberg School of Communication (USC), and a co-initiator of the Non-Aligned Tech Movement.
With prior experience as a Senior Policy Fellow at the Web Foundation, a Google Policy Fellow, and multiple non-governmental organizations in Mexico and Argentina, Juan is focused on understanding how various entities wield their influence to restructure information pathways, thereby shaping human knowledge and rights.
While Juan retains the analytical mindset of a lawyer (DiTella), his academic journey includes Masters in Public Policy (Oxford) and Social Science of the Internet (Oxford Internet Institute). These academic pursuits have equipped him with quantitative and qualitative tools for policy assessments. His words have been featured in Wired, The Washington Post, Tech Won't Save Us, CNN, Euractiv, and Inter Press Service.
•internet governance, internet fragmentation, geopolitics