Shanthi Kalathil is founder and principal at MDO Advisors, a visiting senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and a senior fellow with USC’s Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy. Kalathil previously served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Coordinator for Democracy and Human Rights at the National Security Council and, prior to that, as the senior director of the National Endowment for Democracy’s International Forum for Democratic Studies. A former Hong Kong-based reporter for the Asian Wall Street Journal, she has focused throughout her career on the intersection of technology, information and international affairs at organizations including the US Agency for International Development, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the World Bank. She sits on the boards of Radio Free Asia and the National Democratic Institute, and holds degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and the London School of Economics and Political Science.
