Cameran Ashraf is the head of Human Rights at the Wikimedia Foundation, assistant professor of new media and global communications at the Department of Public Policy, Central European University, and co-founder of AccessNow, one of the largest international human rights organisations defending human rights on the internet. In 2010 AccessNow was short-listed by the European Parliament for the 2010 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, the European Union’s highest human rights honour. A young but accomplished scholar, Cameran has been invited to speak at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, UC Berkeley, the European University Institute, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), and as an invited expert for the Kofi Annan Commission on Elections and Democracy in the Digital Age. Professor Ashraf holds a Ph.D. from UCLA on the geopolitics of Internet censorship and cyberconflict. He is a member of Persia’s Ansari Scholarship Selection Panel.