Director
Biography
Sue Gardner is an internet innovator. Sue is the former longtime head of the Wikimedia Foundation, the San Francisco-based nonprofit that operates Wikipedia. Before that she ran CBC.CA, the English-language website of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Today, Sue is a consultant, board member, and advisor for a variety of nonprofits and startups, mostly in the realm of technology, media, and digital freedoms. She is a board member with Privacy International, the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, Wiki Education, and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). Sue has an honorary doctorate of laws from Ryerson University, was named a Technology Pioneer for the World Economic Forum at Davos, has been ranked by Forbes magazine as the world’s 70th most powerful woman, was the inaugural recipient of the Knight Foundation’s Innovation Award, has received the Cultural Humanist of the Year award from the Harvard Humanist Association, and is a proud recipient of the Nyan Cat Medal of Internet Awesomeness for Defending Internet Freedom. She has been a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and the McConnell Professor of Practice at the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University.
