Sasha Havlicek
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| Born | May 1975 London |
| 🏳️ Nationality | British |
| 🎓 Alma mater | London School of Economics Institut d'Etudes Politiques |
| 💼 Occupation | Charity executive |
| 📆 Years active | 1998–present |
| 👔 Employer | Institute for Strategic Dialogue |
| 👶 Children | 1 |
| 👪 Relatives | Anna Mahler (grandmother)
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Sasha Havlicek (born May 1975)[inconsistent] is a British charity executive who currently serves as co-founder and chief executive officer of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue,[1] the world's oldest and largest organisation dedicated to countering extremism.
Early life and education
Sasha Havlicek was born and raised in London, England. She is the granddaughter of Austrian sculptor Anna Mahler and great-granddaughter of Austrian composers Gustav Mahler and Alma Mahler. She received Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the London School of Economics and a graduate diploma from Institut Detudes Politique (IEP) in Paris, France.
Career
Sasha began her career as a Senior Director at the EastWest Institute, where she headed the Centre for Border Cooperation,[2] setting up field operations across the Balkans, Eastern Europe and Russia[3] She also served on a Task Force of the Stability Pact for Southeastern Europe in the aftermath of the Balkan wars.
In 2006, she co-founded the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) along with George Weidenfeld and has since served as the organisation's Chief Executive Officer. Alarmed by the societal disruption and eventual violence in her father's native Yugoslavia in the mid-1990s, the subsequent genocide in Bosnia, and the rise of Islamist terrorist attacks in the early 2000s, Havlicek sought to establish an organisation that could advise on practical solutions to the rise and spread of extremism as a motivating ideology rather than focus on post-extremist manifestations such as terrorism or geo-political conflict as many existing organisations did. By 2020, the Institute became the largest organisation in the world with an exclusive focus on the study of and responses to extremism, independently convening 13 countries and the European Union on extremism and digital policy on a regular basis.[4][5]
In her role at ISD, she has been a featured speaker at the White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism[6] and Women in the World[7] in 2015, the Belgrade Security Forum in 2015 and 2016,[8] the Aspen Ideas Festival in 2016,[9] the Web Summit in 2017,[10] the Global Summit on Homegrown Violent Extremism at the USC Price School of Public Policy in 2017,[11] Friends of Europe's Debating Security Plus in 2018,[12] the Skoll World Forum,[13] Globsec,[14] and Trust in Journalism[15] conferences in 2020, the Council on Foreign Relations[16] and International Women's Forum in 2021,[17] and the Defence Disrupted[18] and Eradicate Hate Global Summit conferences in 2022.[19] She provided testimony to the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs in 2015 on women under ISIS captivity[20] and the Home Office Select Committee in 2019 on social media and disinformation[21]
Sasha is also a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Coalition for Digital Safety,[22] a board member for the Forum on Information & Democracy,[23] a Scholar-in-Residence[24] at the Leaders in Light Institute, and a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations.[25]
Recognition
- Selected for the Expert Group for the UK Government's Commission for Countering Extremism.[26] (2018)
- Selected as Special Advisor to the Mayor of London's Countering Violent Extremism programme.[27] (2019)
- Featured in Episode 4 of Why We Hate, a documentary series from the Discovery Channel produced by Alex Gibney and Steven Spielberg investigating hate movements.[28] (2019)
References
- ↑ "Sasha Havlicek". Institute for Strategic Dialogue. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
- ↑ "EastWest Institute: Ukraine, EU, Russia: Challenges and Opportunities for New Relations" (PDF).
- ↑ "List of participants". Council of Europe. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
- ↑ "Digital Policy Lab". Institute for Strategic Dialogue. 2023-01-25. Retrieved 2023-01-25.
- ↑ "Written Commitments on the occasion of the 'Summit for Democracy'" (PDF). Federal Republic of Germany. 2021-12-08. Retrieved 2023-01-25 – via U.S. Department of State.
- ↑ "Local Partnerships in Combating Terrorism". C-SPAN. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
- ↑ Newspaper, The Peninsula (2015-10-09). "Women, girls crucial in fight against Islamic State ideology: Experts". The Peninsula. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
- ↑ "Sasha Havliček". Belgrade Security Forum. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
- ↑ "Aspen Ideas Conference 2016". All American Speakers Bureau. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
- ↑ Media Narratives Around Terrorism | Web Summit 2017. Retrieved 2022-10-20 – via YouTube.
- ↑ Global Summit on Homegrown Violent Extremism: Keynote - Sasha Havlicek. Retrieved 2022-10-20 – via YouTube.
- ↑ EPIC. "Debating Security Plus 2018: Conflict, competition and cooperation in an interconnected world". Friends of Europe. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
- ↑ Using Social Listening to Confront COVID-19. Retrieved 2022-10-20 – via YouTube.
- ↑ "Transatlantic Security Jam. Securing the post-COVID future". GLOBSEC. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
- ↑ "2020 Speaker Bios". Trust in Journalism Conference. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
- ↑ "Confronting Extremism at the Municipal Level". Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
- ↑ Sasha Havlicek at the International Womens Forum 2021. Retrieved 2022-10-20 – via YouTube.
- ↑ "Speakers". Defence Disrupted. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
- ↑ "Sasha Havlicek - Eradicate Hate Global Summit". 2022-07-06. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
- ↑ Havlicek, Sasha (2015-07-28). "The Islamic State's War on Women and Girls" (PDF). Retrieved 2022-10-20.
- ↑ "BBC Parliament - Select Committees, Social Media and Disinformation Committee". BBC. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
- ↑ "Members". Global Coalition for Digital Safety. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
- ↑ "The Forum on Information & Democracy". Forum on Information & Democracy. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
- ↑ "Scholars in Residence". Leaders in Light Institute. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
- ↑ Bechev, Dimitar. "The Periphery of the Periphery: The Western Balkans and the Euro Crisis" (PDF). European Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
- ↑ "The Commission for Countering Extremism has formed a new Expert Group - Commission for Countering Extremism". Commission for Countering Extremism. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
- ↑ "Mayor calls for improved efforts to tackle violent extremism". London City Hall. 2019-01-29. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
- ↑ "Why We Hate". Discovery UK. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
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