Dr. Eirliani Abdul Rahman

Senior Fellow, Georgetown University, USA

Since its inception in 2016, Eirliani 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. A Senior Fellow at Georgetown University, Eirliani 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. A Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts, Eirliani is a member of Chatham House and a former New America Open Technology Institute Fellow. She was a Prajna Leadership and Julio Frenk DrPH Fellow at Harvard. Her work has been profiled by inter alia, the BBC, CBC, NPR, Slate, Harvard Public Health, the Sunday Times, and Business Insider. Her opinion pieces have been published by inter alia New America, Newsweek, Harvard Public Health, Chatham House and the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP).