About Alice Stollmeyer
Alice Stollmeyer is the Founder and Executive Director of Defend Democracy. She has a background in social studies of science, technology and society. A former policy adviser and digital strategist, she now works on democracy, technology and sharp power (also known as hybrid threats). Alice has lived and worked in Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels, and increasingly travels across Europe and beyond for her work. She is in Politico’s #Power40 top influencers who are most effectively setting the agenda in politics, public policy & advocacy in Brussels. She is a frequent speaker in panels, podcasts, the media and closed-door meetings.
With a solid background in social studies of science, technology and society and in communication, in 2012 Alice founded her own consultancy @StollmeyerEU, which specialised in EU public affairs, political communications and digital advocacy. She has been ranked a top digital EU influencer ever since (#1 female digital EU influencer 2019 and 2020).
On 8 November 2017, Alice Stollmeyer founded Defend Democracy: an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit civil society organisation defending democracy from foreign, domestic and technological threats. Being Defend Democracy’s executive director is now Alice’s (more than) full-time job.
Defend Democracy works at the intersection of freedom, security and technology. To achieve its mission, it operates on the front-line: building awareness, shaping advocacy and taking action. In particular, it aims to grow societal resilience and civil preparedness against hybrid threats and technological challenges to democracy.
Defend Democracy’s activities range from community and capacity building for democracy defenders to convening high-level democracy stakeholders for influential working sessions; advocating for whole-of-society resilience to hybrid threats to democracy, for the regulation of Big Tech and fixing the information disorder; and from exposing organised information manipulation to training practitioners on handling disinformation and other harmful information activities.
If compatible with Defend Democracy’s mission, Alice is available for speaking engagements, interviews, moderating, and advice.
Mission
To make a difference for a better world.
Expertise
- The link between democracy and security
- Hybrid threats (a.k.a. sharp power)
- Disinformation and propaganda
- Ethics of technology
- Societal resilience
- Political communications
- EU public affairs
- Digital advocacy
More information
For more information and Alice’s CV click here (you will be redirected to LinkedIn).
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