Lea Kaspar is the Executive Director of Global Partners Digital (GPD), a UK-based organization working at the intersection of digital technology, democracy, and human rights. With over a decade of experience in global digital policy, she focuses on strengthening the legitimacy and inclusiveness of multilateral and plurilateral governance.
Under her leadership, GPD has advanced rights-based and participatory approaches to digital governance across the United Nations system, including the International Telecommunication Union and the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) process.
Since 2014, GPD has also served as the Secretariat of the Freedom Online Coalition, a partnership of 41 governments committed to promoting human rights online.
Lea has served in advisory roles across international forums, including the UN Internet Governance Forum Multistakeholder Advisory Group, the UN CSTD Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation, and the Advisory Board of the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise. She is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Coalition for Digital Safety and holds an MSc in Global Governance and Ethics from UCL.