Assistant Advocacy Director Magnus Ag is a New York-based human rights advocate and journalist. Prior to joining CPJ in 2010, Ag worked as head of section in the Danish Ministry for Science, Technology, and Innovation. He holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in political science from the University of Copenhagen. He speaks English, Danish,…
Shaimaa Abu Elkhir, an Egyptian journalist and human rights defender, is the former Cairo-based representative for CPJ. She previously worked as the Regional Media and Communications Officer at the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network. In 2008, she was awarded a fellowship at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina. She…
Russian investigative journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan are founders and editors of the online security databank and news site Agentura, and authors of the book The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia’s Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB.
Drew Brown is a senior trainer at Global Journalist Security, and a freelance writer and photojournalist who covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq for Knight Ridder Newspapers from 2001 to 2003, and for Stars and Stripes from 2007 to 2010. He served as an airborne infantryman with the U.S. Army’s 75th Ranger Regiment from…