Valiant Richey
Global Head of Outreach and Partnerships for Trust & Safety, Tiktok
2023
Valiant (Val) Richey is the Global Head of Outreach and Partnerships for Trust & Safety at TikTok. He leads a team that oversees transparency initiatives, user empowerment programs, and engages civil society to enhance safety on the platform. Prior to this role, Val spent five years at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe as Special Representative for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings. Before joining the OSCE, he served for thirteen years as a prosecutor in the United States handling sexual assault, child exploitation and human trafficking cases. He holds a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in political science from Boston University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Washington.
At the Summit
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.
