Ambassador (ret.) Eileen Donahoe

Eileen Donahoe is a co-founder and affiliated scholar at Stanford’s Global Digital Policy Incubator, at the Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law.  She served as US Special Envoy for Digital Freedom at the Department of State during the Biden administration and as U.S. Ambassador to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva during the Obama administration. Eileen is the Founder and Managing Partner of Sympatico Ventures – an investing and grant-making fund focused on AI alignment and assurance technology. Earlier in her career, she served as the Director of Global Affairs at Human Rights Watch and was a technology litigator at Fenwick & West in Silicon Valley. Eileen serves as Vice Chair of the National Endowment for Democracy Board of Directors; the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Board of Directors, and Dartmouth College Board of Trustees. She holds the following degrees: BA, Dartmouth; J.D., Stanford Law School; MA East Asian Studies, Stanford; M.T.S., Harvard; and Ph.D., Ethics & Social Theory, GTU Cooperative Program with UC Berkeley. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.