Brett Solomon

Brett Solomon is co-founder and Executive Director of Access Now, which defends and extends the digital rights of users at risk around the world, fighting for open and secure communications for all. Mr Solomon sits on the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on the Future of the Internet.

Previously, he was Campaign Director at Avaaz.org, a global movement which has rapidly grown into the largest online activist community in the world at almost 20 million subscribers in all 193 countries. He was the first Executive Director of GetUp, an Australian independent political movement which uses new technologies to facilitate Australians’ participation in democracy.

Mr Solomon has worked both locally and internationally on a range of social justice and human rights issues. He honed his career at Oxfam Australia, where he founded the International Youth Parliament (IYP), an international network of young social change leaders from 140 countries tackling issues such as poverty, conflict and globalisation. Prior to this, he worked as the Campaign Coordinator for Amnesty International Australia, where his main focus was refugees and asylum seekers, the arms trade and national security.

Mr Solomon has a bachelors degree in Arts and Law from the University of Sydney and a masters degree in International Law from the University of New South Wales.