Audrey Tang

Audrey Tang is Taiwan's Cyber Ambassador and the 2025 Right Livelihood Laureate. A civic hacker and co-author of Plurality and Civic AI, she is a Senior Fellow at Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI and Columbia SIPA. As the world's first nonbinary cabinet minister and Taiwan's Minister of Digital Affairs (2016–2024), she received the Right Livelihood Award for advancing digital technology to empower citizens and renew democracy. Tang co-founded g0v, helped lead the 2014 Sunflower Movement, and implemented vTaiwan, which raised public trust in government to over 70%. She co-launched ROOST and strives to be a "good enough ancestor."