Josie Thum

Josie (she/ her) is a Senior Advocacy Officer at Privacy International (PI). She works on our countering authoritarianism and surveillance at borders projects.

Prior to joining PI, Josie was a Senior Research and Policy Associate at the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) where she focused on human rights in the Gulf, namely the death penalty, political prisoners, asylum and corporate accountability cases. She also worked as a Legal Clinical Fellow at Aix-Marseille Université and as Advocacy Manager for a Swiss child rights organisation. She speaks French and Spanish.