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Courtney Radsch (she/her/hers)

Director
Center for Journalism & Liberty

Dr. Courtney C. Radsch, PhD, is Director of the Center for Journalism and Liberty at the Open Markets Institute where she produces and oversees cutting-edge research into the political economy of AI, news media market structures, and information power and helps design smart policy solutions that protect democracy and human liberty. As a global thought leader she has a track record of influential policy work, regularly publishes and provides commentary and analysis in top media outlets, keynotes and moderates events around the world, and advises publishers and media leaders on AI strategy. Dr. Radsch has testified before congressional, parliamentary, and competition authorities in several countries and regularly advises global, national and local media and international organizations including the UN, EU, OECD, OSCE, and WEF. Dr. Radsch is also a non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institution and the Center for International Governance Innovation.

Before joining Open Markets, Dr. Radsch was a postdoc and lecturer at the UCLA Institute for Technology, Law & Policy and an advisor on strategy, tech policy and legal regulatory issues to leading human rights groups, media organizations, and tech companies. She previously worked for the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and UNESCO following stints as a journalist and editor in the US and Middle. Dr. Radsch serves on the boards of Tech Policy Press and the Dangerous Speech Project and has held advisory roles with the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism the International (GIFCT), the International Science Council's Panel of Experts on the Public Value of Science, and the Observatory on Information and Democracy. She is the author of Cyberactivism and Citizen Journalism in Egypt: Digital Dissidence and Political Change (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2016), holds a doctorate in international relations, and speaks Arabic, French and Spanish.

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