Lea Kaspar

Executive Director

Lea oversees the development and implementation of GPD’s vision and strategy, as well as steering the organisation’s growth and development and leading its programmatic portfolio.

Before joining GPD, Lea worked at the UN Democracy Fund, co-founded the Croatian UN Association, and championed the Model UN movement in Croatia. 

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15 Sep 2025
Blog post

Opening Multilateralism: Two Pathways to Digital Legitimacy

As digital technologies reshape global power, the rules that govern them are increasingly negotiated in multilateral fora. But if these bodies are to deliver legitimate and future-proof governance frameworks for the Internet, AI, cybersecurity, and data, their processes must adapt – expanding participation to include the wider set of actors…
19 Jun 2025
Report

Stakeholder Positions on IGF in WSIS+20: Comparative Analysis

As the global Internet governance community prepares to meet in Lillestrøm in June 2025, the future of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) hangs in the balance. With its mandate up for review as part of the WSIS+20 process, proposals on the table range from evolutionary tweaks to more radical overhauls.
16 Jun 2025
Blog post

WSIS+20 Will Decide the IGF’s Fate—Are We Ready?

As the global Internet governance community prepares to meet in Lillestrøm, Norway, next week, the setting has a certain symmetry. Nearly two decades after the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) gave rise to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), the UN-mandated platform for multistakeholder dialogue is again under review—its…