Lena Slachmuijlder is the Co-Chair of the Council on Tech and Social Cohesion, which brings together technologists, academics, policy advocates and peacebuilders to incentivize the design and deployment of technology for social cohesion, rather than polarization and violence. She has 30 years of experience working for peaceful social change, starting as a journalist with anti-apartheid media in South Africa, and pioneering creative media tools for peacebuilding over the last two decades, including sitcoms, game shows and reality TV. She has led peacebuilding trainings on five continents for civil society actors, journalists, artists and security forces. Lena is a graduate of Stanford University, an alumni of Amsterdam's THNK School for Creative Leadership and Ashoka awardee. In 2020, Lena gave a TEDx talk entitled ‘The Vaccine to End War’. She lives in Brussels with her husband and two step-children.
