Mahsa Alimardani

Mahsa Alimardani

Mahsa Alimardani is the Associate Director of the Technology, Threats, and Opportunities program at WITNESS. She has over a decade of experience working at the intersection of digital rights, freedom of expression, and emerging technologies, leading research and advocacy on digital repression and contributing to the design and development of technologies that serve the most vulnerable.

Before joining WITNESS, Mahsa led research and advocacy on internet censorship, surveillance, and digital repression at ARTICLE 19, focusing on the Middle East and North Africa. She serves in advisory roles as a Guardrails Advisor for De|Center, a Committee Member for SMEX’s Digital Rights Fund, and a member of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Digital Democracy Network. She is also a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Oxford, where her research explores digital repression, and has served as a Senior Information Controls Fellow supported by the Open Technology Fund.