Renata Ávila & Scott Griffen

Renata Ávila is the CEO of the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN). She is an international human rights and technology lawyer and openness advocate, helping individuals and organisations access and use data to take action on the most pressing social problems, as well as preserving and enhancing human rights through open standards, policy and advocacy. In her previous practice, focused in strategic litigation for access to information and access to justice, she represented high profile human rights advocates, including Nobel Peace Prize Rigoberta Menchu Tum. A former fellow and affiliate of the Stanford Institute of Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence, she is currently associated with the Center for Internet and Society at CNRS, France. She participates on the boards of several organisations, including Open Future, the Center for the Advancement of Infrastructural Imagination and the Just Net Coalition. She co-founded the Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms and the Progressive International. She has co-authored two books and contributed chapters to several others, and regularly contributes to different publications in English and Spanish.

Scott Griffen is the executive director of the International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, publishers, and media executives for press freedom. A respected media freedom advocate and expert, he joined IPI in 2012 and served as the organization’s deputy director from 2018 to 2024. He is the author of numerous reports on press freedom and independent journalism and has led IPI programs and in-country advocacy in dozens of countries on six continents. He holds degrees from Yale University, King’s College London, and Johannes Kepler University Linz.