Cori Crider

Honorary Professor of Practice

Biography

Cori Crider is a lawyer and strategist with fifteen years’ experience leading legal advocacy nonprofits. 

She is currently a Senior Fellow at Open Markets and FutureTech, where she examines ways to reshape digital markets for people and planet. Cori also advises philanthropic organisations on strategies to tackle market concentration.

In 2019, she co-founded Foxglove, a non-profit committed to justice in technology, and co-directed it for its first five years. In that period Foxglove won the UK’s first legal challenges to biased government algorithms in border control and student grading. Other landmark cases enforced the rights of Facebook and Amazon workers, challenged social media’s role in fuelling violence, and defended public value and patient autonomy in the use of health data.

Cori’s writing and views on tech justice and market power have featured in the Financial Times, the Guardian, the BBC, Politico, the British Medical Journal, Project Syndicate, and others. In 2019, she presented The World According to AI, a documentary.

Previously Cori spent twelve years at Reprieve, where she led an international team representing drone strike survivors and Guantánamo detainees. She holds a B.A. from the University of Texas and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.