Dr. Cameran Ashraf leads human rights at the Wikimedia Foundation and is co-founder of AccessNow, the world's largest human rights organization dedicated to defending digital rights. Based on his work, the European Parliament selected AccessNow as finalist for the 2010 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, the European Union’s highest human rights honor. In 2022 he co-founded the Azadi Archive, part of the Iran Digital Archive Coalition together with the Atlantic Council, UC Berkeley, UCLA, and Amnesty International which utilizes open source information to support United Nations investigations into crimes against humanity. He has advised the United Nations, the International Criminal Court, European Parliament, and the United States Senate on issues related to technology and human rights. 

Previously, Cameran was professor of new media and communications at Central European University in Vienna, Austria and has published widely on technology and human rights, with a focus on freedom of religion or belief. Cameran is also a member of the OSCE Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights' Board of Advisors for Security and Freedom of Religion or Belief and sits on the International Religious Freedom or Belief Alliance Council of Experts.