Oktavía Hrund Guðrúnar

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Oktavía is the founder and CEO of the think tank future404. They have two decades of experience in digital security, human rights, privacy, and accountability across countries, sectors, and cultures, from the grassroots to the Board level. They have developed and directed global iNGO programming such as the holistic security program SAFE Initiative, scaled startups and companies. In addition, they served as a Deputy Member of Parliament in their native Iceland from 2016 to 2021.Oktavía has provided leadership of diverse, global, remote teams, including activists, programmers, content creators, program staff and managers, in both nonprofit, corporate and social impact driven for-profit contexts. Oktavía comes to any advisory task and challenge with a demonstrated track record of success in strategic visioning and designing, implementing, and evaluating high-impact in growth and diversification plans for human rights and tech programming as well as organisations, large and small.Oktavía currently serves as a member of the Multi-stakeholder Advisory Group of the Internet Governance Forum and has sat on the Board of Level Up as well as the Technical Advisory Board of the Freedom of the Press Foundation.