Vera Franz

Vera has 25 years of experience at the intersection of digital technology, social justice and philanthropy. She is an independent philanthropic advisor and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at UCL Faculty of Laws. For two decades, she has served in programmatic leadership roles for the Open Society Foundations (OSF), the world’s largest private funder of human rights, where she directed the Global Program on Technology & Society. Prior to her work in philanthropy, she has held academic teaching, research, and NGO management roles.