JAMEEL JAFFER

Executive Director, Knight First Amendment Institute

Jameel Jaffer is the executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. The institute promotes the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through litigation, research, policy advocacy, and public education. He previously served in various leadership positions at the American Civil Liberties Union, ultimately overseeing the organisation's work on free speech, privacy, technology, national security, and international human rights. Over the course of his career as a litigator, Jaffer has argued human rights and civil liberties cases in multiple appeals courts as well as the US Supreme Court; he has also testified many times before federal agencies and the US Congress.