Courtney Radsch

Courtney C. Radsch, PhD, is the Director of the Center for Journalism and Liberty at the Open Markets Institute and a non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institute and the Center for Democracy and Technology. As a global thought leader on the intersection of technology, media, and rights, Dr. Radsch is a frequent public speaker and regularly provides expert commentary in the media, including CNN, Al Jazeera, NPR, and other global media outlets. Her research and analysis have been published in leading media outlets including The New York Times, Forbes, Newsweek, Columbia Journalism Review, Nieman Reports and Project Syndicate, among others, as well as peer-reviewed journals. She has testified before congressional, parliamentary, and competition authorities around the world and advised publishers and journalism leaders about how tech and AI impact journalism and media sustainability around the world. Radsch has led media assessment and press freedom advocacy missions to more than a dozen countries and has advised the EU, OSCE, OECD, World Economic Forum and the United Nations on issues related to tech policy, AI governance, online harassment, trust and safety, human rights, and the future of journalism. 

Dr. Radsch is a strategic advisor to leading human rights and media freedom organizations and previously led advocacy and communications at the Committee to Protect Journalists, freedom of expression work in the Arab region at UNESCO, and worked as journalist in the U.S. and Middle East. 

Her scholarship and work are informed by a commitment to human rights and ensuring the sustainability of independent media, and as a member of the responsible tech movement she serves on the boards of several organizations working on technology policy and human rights including Tech Policy Press, Ranking Digital Rights, and the Dangerous Speech Project. Dr. Radsch specializes in transforming research and ideas into action while building cross-functional organizational strategies and alliances to advance policy objectives and knowledge. 

She holds a Ph.D. in international relations from American University, a M.S. from Georgetown University and a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and speaks Arabic, French and Spanish.