Eirliani Abdul Rahman

At-a-Glance

Co-founder and Co-Director of the Global Responsible Tech Lab at the University of Mannheim.
Holds a doctorate in public health (DrPH) from Harvard University.
Member of the Independent Advisory Group of UNICEF Innocenti, advising on tech-facilitated violence.
Award-winning author of the memoir "The Years of Forgetting", nominated for the 2022 Singapore Litera...
Served in the Singapore Foreign Service from 2005-2015, including as third-in-command at embassies in Berlin and Delhi.
Resigned from Twitter's Trust and Safety Council in December 2022 in protest against rising hate speech.

Biography

Eirliani Abdul Rahman is an online safety advocate and academic researcher. She co-directs the Global Responsible Tech Lab at the University of Mannheim in Germany, a group she co-founded with Prof. Marc Ratkovic. She is also a research affiliate at LOGOS at the University of Cambridge.