Anya Schiffrin

She is the Co-chair of the OSCE Working Group tasked with producing recommendations for governments on press freedom,[1][2] a director on the U.S. Board of Directors of the Thomson Reuters Foundation,[3] and a member of the Working Group "Information as a Public Good in the Age of Datafication and Artificial Intelligence" for the International Panel on Social Progress (appointed September 2024).

Dr. Schiffrin also advises the American Journalism Project and Columbia University Press, while contributing to the Forum on Information and Democracy’s Infodemics Working Group.

[9] Previously, Dr. Schiffrin served on the Open Society Foundations' journalism program (2016–2023), the Center for Media, Data and Society of Central European University (2013-2019),[10] the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Forum Alpbach (2018–2023), the board of the American Assembly (2016–2019), and the Steering Committee of the Center on Global Energy Policy (2016–2018).

In recent years, her research work with economist Haaris Mateen on why tech giants owe publishers billions of dollars[12][13] garnered significant attention and recognition.

She was married[16] on October 29, 2004, to Nobel Prize-winning economist and author Joseph E. Stiglitz, who also teaches at Columbia University in New York City.