Patrick Meier

Patrick Meier is the Director of Crisis Mapping and Strategic Partnerships at Ushahidi. He co-founded the International Network of Crisis Mappers (CM*Net) and the Program on Crisis Mapping and Early Warning at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI). He is recognized for his leadership in the fields of crisis mapping, early warning and digital activism.

Meier is also a PhD candidate at The Fletcher School, Tufts University, where his dissertation research focuses on the use of new media and digital technology in popular resistance against authoritarian rule. He is on the Board of Advisors of DigiActive and Digital Democracy. Meier is the author of the iRevolution blog. He was born in Cote d'Ivoire and raised in Kenya.