Gaston Wright

Biography

Gaston Wright has an extensive experience in social innovations and technology for social change. He recently formed Civic Compass, a new think-tank for Latin America dedicated to studying digital rights and their impact on the civic space, as well as other pressing issues such as data protection, content moderation, AI and political polarization. In 2012 he started Change.org Argentina, turning the local operation into one of Latin America's fastest-growing social change platforms with more than 10 million users. After a long tenure working for influential NGOs, he moved to the private sector, where he was Public Policy Manager at Facebook for the South Cone.

Previously, he worked at Ashoka: Innovators for the Public in the US and Canada for 12 years, where he founded and led the global expansion of Changemaker.com. He also worked as a consultant on digital transformation for the Womanity Foundation in Switzerland and the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington DC.