Our Team
Suelette Dreyfus
Dr Suelette Dreyfus is the Executive Director of Blueprint for Free Speech. Suelette’s career has spanned academia, journalism and advocacy. She is a specialist in cybersecurity technologies and in integrity systems that work as corrective mechanisms in society.
Suelette founded Blueprint in 2014 with a view to improving the standards of laws and practice around the globe that protect freedom of expression. Her specific work at Blueprint is to raise the standards of protection for whistleblowers. She also works on projects to protect the media’s ability to publish freely, particularly via the internet, and on the creation of new technology to achieve these goals.
Naomi Colvin
Naomi Colvin is UK/Ireland/Belgium Program Director at Blueprint. She has a particular interests in whistleblowing as a freedom of expression issue and the intersection of digitally-mediated whistleblowing with the criminal law. Before coming to Blueprint, Naomi ran high-profile advocacy campaigns in this area.
Naomi holds a Master's Degree in European Political Economy and an undergraduate degree in Russian Studies, both from the London School of Economics.
Additional languages: Russian
Philipp Wissing
Philipp Wissing coordinates the German NoSLAPP project for Blueprint, and the German activities as part of the PATFox Project (Pioneering anti-SLAPP Training for Freedom of Expression).
Philipp studied at LMU Munich and SciencesPo Paris. He is passionate about strategic organizing and has worked to build the PATFox project across 11 countries. He is also part of the executive team of a Munich based association aimed at supporting young progressive initiatives.
Additional languages: German, French
Bruno Galizzi
Originally from Argentina, Bruno is a Research and Assessment Fellow at Blueprint for Free Speech. Driven by a specific interest in methodology and research, he pursued a Sociology Degree at Buenos Aires University. He has expertise in statistical analysis of public opinion polling, and has previously worked in this area for an international market research company.
He is currently campaigning to foster whistleblower protection in Mexico and Latin America for Blueprint.
Additional languages: Spanish, Italian
Veronika Nad
Veronika Nad is a Project Manager and trained Anthropologist with a Masters from Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. Veronika has conducted field research in India and Tanzania prior to working on anti-corruption measures, whistleblowing and transparency since 2013.
Veronika is particularly interested in questions regarding the adoption and implications of whistleblowing schemes in different socio-cultural contexts, and has done extensive research on the state of whistleblower protection in Europe.
Additional languages: German, French
Chris Culnane
Dr Chris Culnane is Security and Privacy Project Adviser at Blueprint.
With more than a decade of practical and research experience, Chris brings expertise in designing, building and analysing tech projects that ensure privacy and security. He was one of the first researchers to do an openly published detailed technical analysis of the Australian and British COVID-19 notification apps to assess the impact on end-users’ personal privacy and security.
He has PhD in Computer Science from the University of Surrey.
Sara Chessa
Sara is a journalist for Blueprint for Free Speech. She mainly covers human rights and is particularly interested in the relationship between technology, privacy and free speech. Sara also covers legal and political subjects for the International Bar Association's website and her book on the Julian Assange extradition hearings has been published by Castelvecchi in Italy. Sara holds a Master's Degree in Social Sciences and Development Cooperation from the University of Cagliari, Italy.
Additional languages: Italian, Sardinian, Spanish.
Leanne O’Donnell
Leanne is our Head of Policy & Advocacy, working on issues relevant to freedom of expression and whistleblowing. She has over 15 years' experience in the telecommunications industry, working across regulatory affairs, public policy and security regulation.
As a senior lawyer, Leanne also played a central role in the landmark iiNet copyright litigation, from trial through to the unanimous High Court win
Andy Dabilis
Andy is Blueprint’s journalist in Greece. He previously worked as a columnist and European Affairs Editor for New Europe in Athens and Brussels, a contributor to Southeast European Times, an Assistant Metropolitan Editor for The Boston Globe and New England Editor for the international wire service UPI. As Blueprint’s investigative journalist, he routinely investigates and reports on stories related to both corruption and media freedom.
Morgan
Morgan is our Lead Software Engineer currently working on modernizing the Ricochet instant messenger. They have many years experience developing cross-platform applications in C and C++. They think a lot about how to build systems which are both usable as well as security and privacy preserving by default. They have extensive work experience with The Tor Project.
Additional languages: Dutch
Aris Danikas
Aristeidis Danikas is an Honorary Fellow at Blueprint. He is a specialist in hardware electronics, as well as being a human rights activist. He provides expertise in examination of digital evidence, of criminal investigations, and of methods used to manipulate evidence.
Additional Languages: Greek, Zulu
Cannelle Lavite
Cannelle Lavite is an Honorary Legal Fellow. She holds a Master’s degree in International Law and Criminal Business Law (double diploma) from the University of Toulouse Capitole I (France) and the University of Montreal (Quebec), and a Certificate in Criminology and Criminal Services from University La Sorbonne. She is completing a PhD at Bremen University. Her PhD thesis work focuses on new forms of law production in the frame of whistleblowers’ protection.
She has deep legal expertise in whistleblowing (particularly in Luxembourg, France and Belgium) as well as both criminal and corporate law.
Additional languages: Portuguese, French, German, Spanish
Simon Wolfe
Simon Wolfe is an Honorary Legal Research Fellow. He graduated with an LL.B from the University of Melbourne and an LL.M from Stockholm University.
Simon has a background in both freedom of speech law and policy and commercial law. He has significant experience in whistleblower protection law, national security legislation and freedom of expression policy generally.
He has authored many reports and submissions on behalf of Blueprint for Free Speech and has appeared before parliaments or legislative committees on behalf of Blueprint in Australia, Iceland and Taiwan, and submitted to many others. Prior to joining Blueprint, Simon worked at a commercial law firm in Australia, and spent time working in France and Tanzania.
Additional languages: Swedish, French
Liudmyla Tiahnyriadno
Liudmyla is an Honorary Journalism Fellow advising Blueprint’s whistleblower protection initiatives in Ukraine.
She has a Master of Public Administration and Administration degree and has been working in journalism since 2010, including as editor, investigative journalist, news anchor and presenter with Ukraine’s Public Broadcasting Company.
Additional languages: Ukrainian, Russian