David Tessler
Director of the Dangerous Organizations and Individuals Policy, Meta
2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
David Tessler joined Meta in 2019 and is now the Director of the Dangerous Organizations and Individuals Policy team. David’s team, along with hundreds of other experts at the company, work to stop terrorist, hate, and criminal groups that try to use our platforms. Before joining Meta, David served in the US Foreign Service and at the US Treasury Department for almost 20 years of public service. Among his assignments, David was stationed in Bucharest, Baghdad, and at the US Mission to the United Nations, where he focused on countering terrorist financing and sanctions. David grew up outside of New York City. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Washington University in St. Louis and with a master’s of public policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School.
The Summit unites the public and private sectors, domestic and international, against hate and extremism. Researchers, activists, lawyers, technology experts, political leaders, and more come together, each bringing their unique tools to the fight. Important relationships that were established at the Summit in 2021 have carried forward into working groups with concrete deliverables for 2022 and beyond.
