Yvette Alberdingk-Thijm

Yvette is a human rights leader who guides leadership teams and boards in mission-driven organizations facing disruptive landscapes, advising on governance, global growth, risk management, digital transformation, and healthy organizational design. Her passion point and expertise sit on the intersection of media & technology & human rights, capturing the promise and mitigating the perils of emerging technologies while building healthy, thriving cultures in global teams. As the former Executive Director of WITNESS, a global leader in the use of visual storytelling and emerging technologies for human rights, for the past 15 years, she championed approaches that center the agency and voices of those most at risk of abuse; her focus was on strengthening ‘ecosystems’ of collaborations between media, technology, and human rights to create social change. Yvette previously worked globally in both new technology start-ups and established companies in media. She is currently a member of the Board of Doc Society and a contributor to the Strength & Solidarity and Wellbeing Project communities.