Alena Kahle

Alena Kahle is Senior Advocacy and Communications Officer at Foundation The London Story, an Indian diaspora-led civil society organisation in the Netherlands. Her work focuses on advocacy to counter the monetisation of hate and for human rights centric social media regulation. Based in Brussels, she builds bridges between human rights defenders in India and European decision-makers, to ensure that EU digital policy and platform behaviour is based on global equity. To this end, she was one of the coordinators of the 8-day EU-India People's Summit and the India on the Brink Summit, and currently convenes a civil society roundtable to coordinate social media accountability work during India's general elections. Prior to this, she worked with diverse human rights defenders and civil society organisations in India and abroad.