After a Ph.D in Experimental Particle Physics, Dan worked with people with learning disabilities and as a mental health advocate. He founded Multikulti, a community-led multilingual site for asylum seekers & refugees which won a Global Ideas Bank Social Innovations Award. After some personal experiences of human rights abuses, Dan joined Amnesty International as Director of Ecommunications where he introduced blogging and social networks and headed Amnesty’s delegation to the UN Internet Governance Forum.

He regularly trains NGOs and journalists in Central & Eastern Europe in techniques for digital activism. In 2007 he co-founded Social Innovation Camp which brings together geeks and social innovators to create social startups in 48 hours.

Dan blogs at www.internetartizans.co.uk and you can find him on Twitter @danmcquillan