Celia Davies
Director of International Programmes, Director of Ethics, Moonshot
2022
Celia Davies oversees Moonshot’s interventions and safeguarding programming, with specialisms in CVE and GBV interventions and conflict-affected regions. She has led the development of multi-platform online interventions programmes in South East Asia, the Western Balkans, and North America, pioneering new ways to reach at-risk individuals online and connect them with local services. This has involved building partnerships with local civil society and social enterprises, as well as government prevention bodies and law enforcement. In her capacity as Director of Ethics she leads Moonshot’s internal ethics review processes, overseeing the ethical processes that underpin our work. Celia brings broad experience of working with local groups in complex locations with security challenges, including close to a decade in Russia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, working on human rights, media development and counter-disinformation initiatives.
This cannot be thought of as a conference or a summit. The stakes are simply too high and the data/conversation and methods to drive action more valuable/motivating than any gathering I have attended. I took more than 100 pages of notes and have shared them with my CBS News leadership team, anchors, producers, and correspondents. Nothing about this gathering was easy. The agony around this topic is real. But no one curious about it could ask for a more devoted, rational, or unflinching look into this dark but decipherable world.
