Julie Owono is the Executive Director of Internet Sans Frontieres, and the founder of the Content Policy & Society Lab, an organization first incubated at Stanford University, that helps Tech be better for society.
Julie is one of the inaugural members of the Meta Oversight Board, that oversees content moderation decisions on Facebook and instagram. She is also a Research Fellow with the Human Rights Center at the Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley School of Law. Inspired by her professional path, spanning Julie Owono has an acute interest in understanding what is required to innovate in Tech, while safeguarding the foundational principles of democratic societies. At the intersection of Business and Human Rights, Julie is passionate about creating spaces for collaborations between Tech companies, civil society organizations, Academic institutions, Governments, and finding creative solutions to major governance and policy challenges posed by Technology. Julie Owono advised the U.S. Department of State on Democracy and Content Moderation.
She frequently moderates important tech policy debates and recently served as a moderator of Socrates dialogues on the Metaverse, and the Oversight of AI, both convened and organized by the Aspen Institute. Julie serves on the Board of WITNESS, the Committee to Protect Journalists, Meedan and the Dangerous Speech project. She was also a member of the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI) created by France and Canada, of the World Economic Forum‘s Global Future Council on AI for Humanity, of the WEF Council on the Connected World. She was one of UNESCO’s Ad Hoc Expert Group (AHEG) who drafted the first-ever global standard on Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. She was named Business Personality of the year 2022 by the French-American Chamber of Commerce in San Francisco. Julie frequently debates current issues on various media, including NPR, CNBC, Al Jazeera, BBC, or France 24. Julie graduated in International Law from La Sorbonne University in Paris, and practiced as a lawyer at the Paris Bar.
