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Maria Ressa
International Fund for Public Interest Media (IFPIM)
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate; Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Rappler Inc. and Professor, Columbia University SIPA
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Maria Ressa is the co-founder and CEO of Rappler and a 2021 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, honored for defending freedom of expression as “a precondition for democracy and lasting peace." With nearly 40 years of journalism experience in Asia, she has faced political persecution under the Duterte regime. She is a Professor of Practice at Columbia University and co-leads its Technology and Democracy Initiative. Maria previously led ABS-CBN’s news division and served as CNN’s bureau chief in Manila and Jakarta. She has received global recognition, including Time’s Person of the Year (2018), 100 Most Influential People (2019), and BBC’s 100 Women. Her books include Seeds of Terror, From Bin Laden to Facebook, and How to Stand up to a Dictator.
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