Lea Kaspar

Executive Director

Lea oversees the development and implementation of GPD’s vision and strategy, as well as steering the organisation’s growth and development and leading its programmatic portfolio.

Before joining GPD, Lea worked at the UN Democracy Fund, co-founded the Croatian UN Association, and championed the Model UN movement in Croatia. 

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09 May 2024
Blog post

NETmundial +10: inspiration for multistakeholder digital governance, but is it enough?

Last week (29-30 April), GPD joined other civil society groups, business actors, the technical community and governments in São Paulo, Brazil for NETmundial+10: the ten year follow up to the landmark NETmundial process in 2014, which set out principles for multistakeholder approaches to Internet governance.  In…
31 Oct 2023
Blog post

Navigating the Global AI Governance Landscape 

Note: This research was last updated in October 2023.  The recent Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Kyoto reaffirmed AI as an urgent cross-cutting priority for a diverse set of stakeholders. At the same time, it highlighted the rapidly expanding scale and complexity of the AI governance landscape.  This…
17 Mar 2021
Report

Human Rights in the Digital Age: State of Play across Commonwealth Pacific Countries

The rise and evolution of the internet and digital technologies has brought about new opportunities and challenges for communities around the world to exercise and enjoy their human rights – including freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, and the right to privacy. However, while it is now widely accepted that…