Josie Thum

Josie (she/ her) is a Senior Advocacy Officer at Privacy International (PI). Her work focuses on: resisting authoritarianism, protecting the election cycle, people with disabilities' right to privacy, and the surveillance and externalisation of borders.

Prior to PI, she held senior roles at the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) focusing on human rights in the Gulf, namely the death penalty, political prisoners, asylum and corporate accountability, and at a child rights NGO in Switzerland, whilst acting as Legal Clinical Fellow at Aix-Marseille Université. Josie speaks English, French and Spanish.