David Tessler
Director of the Dangerous Organizations and Individuals Policy, Meta
2021, 2022, 2023
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 catalytic power of this Summit in bringing together those who are devoting their lives to pushing back and working to confront, understand and work towards solutions around hate in our society is a noble and difficult task. The Summit not only energized those who attended but led to connecting the dots in a global network of those doing this work. The stories of the victims of hate were painful to witness but their courage in coming forward was inspirational. Those who attended left energized with the hope that by working together solutions can be forged.
