1. Katherine Roberts Maher is an American non-profit executive.
24 Facts About Katherine Maher
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Katherine Maher has been the chief executive officer and president of NPR since March 2024.
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Katherine Maher is a former chief executive officer and executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation.
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Katherine Maher subsequently joined the Atlantic Council and the US Department of State's Foreign Affairs Policy Board.
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Katherine Maher grew up in Wilton, Connecticut, and attended Wilton High School.
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Katherine Maher's mother, Ceci Maher, is a former non-profit executive who was elected to the Connecticut State Senate in 2022.
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Katherine Maher studied at the Institut francais d'etudes arabes de Damas in Syria and spent time in Lebanon and Tunisia.
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In 2005, Katherine Maher received a bachelor's degree from New York University in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies.
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From 2007 to 2010, Katherine Maher worked in New York City, at UNICEF, as an innovation and communication officer.
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From 2010 to 2011, Katherine Maher worked at the National Democratic Institute as an ICT program officer.
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From 2011 to 2013, Katherine Maher worked at the World Bank as an ICT innovation specialist and consulted on technology for international development and democratization.
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From 2013 to 2014, Katherine Maher was advocacy director at the Washington, DC-based Access Now.
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Katherine Maher was chief communications officer of the Wikimedia Foundation from April 2014 to March 2016.
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Katherine Maher became interim executive director in March 2016 following the resignation of executive director Lila Tretikov and was appointed executive director on June 23,2016; the position was retitled as "executive director and CEO".
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Katherine Maher stepped down from her positions as CEO and executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation on April 15,2021.
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Katherine Maher described the First Amendment as a "number one challenge" in regulating content and fighting disinformation.
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From 2022 to 2023, Katherine Maher was a member of the US State Department's Foreign Affairs Policy Board, an expert panel established in 2011 by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to advise US officials.
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Katherine Maher is the board chair of nonprofit organization, Adventure Scientists as of January 2023.
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In January 2024, Katherine Maher was named CEO of NPR, and started her job in late March.
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Katherine Maher subsequently resigned from the Foreign Affairs Policy Board, but continued on the board of the Signal Foundation.
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Katherine Maher transitioned to the role of non-executive chairperson at Web Summit in March 2024 after only three months as CEO.
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Katherine Maher declined to appear due to a scheduling conflict, as she was already scheduled to meet with NPR's board all day on the same date as the committee's hearing.
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Later that month, Katherine Maher approved and announced a new editing group for NPR, called "the Backstop", which caused internal anxiety.
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Katherine Maher married Ashutosh Upreti, a former lawyer for Lyft and Apple, in July 2023.