Katherine Maher

Speaker at the St. Gallen Symposium

Katherine Maher has served as President and CEO of National Public Radio since 2024. She also worked for seven years as CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, leading Wikipedia to its highest brand trust since its founding, navigating the misinformation crisis and global trust decline in media. Before Wikimedia, Ms Maher worked on rights, democracy, and innovation at Access Now, the World Bank, the National Democratic Institute, and UNICEF. Alongside numerous other engagements, Ms Maher is the Chair of the Board of Signal Foundation, responsible for the secure, private Signal Messenger app, and from 2022 to 2024 served as an advisor to the U.S. Secretary of State's Foreign Affairs Policy Board regarding issues of technology, governance, and human rights. In 2023, she was briefly the CEO of Web Summit and served on its Board of Directors. Ms Maher holds a degree in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies from New York University.