The Battle for Internet Freedom

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Libby Liu was CEO of the Open Technology Fund, an organization dedicated to advancing internet freedom around the world. Prior to leading OTF, Ms. Liu served as President of Radio Free Asia, where in addition to directing editorial and administrative policies and procedures, she coordinated issues in these areas with USAGM and other associated entities. Her responsibilities included ensuring the highest quality administrative and technical support to the editorial staff. In this capacity, she worked to facilitate effective, timely communication and broad-based collaboration among all divisions and bureaus. Prior to assuming this role in 2005, Liu served as vice president for administration and finance from 2003–05.

Amy Studdart is a senior advisor at the International Republican Institute, where she leads the organization's digital democracy programming. Studdart is concurrently the founder and CEO of Villager, a start-up working to bring democracy into the 21st century. She was previously a fellow with The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) where she established the organization’s programming on technology policy. Prior to that, she worked with the executive communications team at Facebook on a project interrogating the social, economic and political implications of the company’s mission to connect the world.