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Chris Fetzer
Advisory Council Member
Partner, Dentons (Washington, D.C.)
In this era of great power competition and geopolitical instability, the development and deployment of democracy-promoting technologies by the US and its allies has become an increasingly vital form of statecraft. Use of technology as a tool for diplomacy is critical to protecting and advancing the global security priorities of the free world—and to empowering those who wish to be a part of it.