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Tereza Horejsova
Board Member, Diplo US
Tereza has had an international career in academia and the non-profit sector in the Czech Republic, the UAE, the USA, and Switzerland. She currently coordinates regional cyber capacity building activities at the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise where she previously chaired the Working Group on Cybersecurity Culture and Skills. Before joining the GFCE, she was director of partnerships at DiploFoundation. She currently serves as a Board Member of Diplo US, the US entity of Diplo she helped establish in 2017. She holds MA in International Studies and PhD in European Studies. Tereza has worked on several capacity building activities in the field of digital policy and is an advocate of bringing practical considerations of capacity building into the discussion. She is a member of the Internet Governance Forum’s Multistakeholder Advisory Group.
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