Accountability Lab’s Senior Non-Resident Fellowship Program
AL’s Senior Non-Resident Fellowship Program engages global thought leaders, advocates and practitioners in advancing innovative approaches to accountability and governance. Fellows are formally affiliated with the Lab’s international network, contributing their expertise and leadership to drive systemic change. By providing resources, collaboration opportunities, and a global platform, the Fellowship enables changemakers to amplify their work, influence policy, and strengthen governance ecosystems.
Our approach is rooted in trust, collaboration, and mutual benefit. We work with Fellows whose values align with the Lab’s mission, offering them space to pursue independent projects while contributing to shared learning and advocacy efforts. Through access to our global network, digital tools, and event platforms, Fellows are able to expand their reach and impact. We prioritize partnerships that uphold the highest standards of integrity, inclusion, and transparency. Contact us for more information.
2025 Senior Non-Resident Fellows
Jennifer Lewis
Jennifer is a global governance and anti-corruption leader with 25+ years driving strategic transformation at the nexus of democracy, public integrity, and open government. She’s worked as a trusted advisor to the White House, USAID, and global development institutions, and is known for forging catalytic coalitions, shaping international policy, and building systems that deliver for people.
She holds deep expertise in anti-corruption, public sector reform, civic engagement, and democratic renewal, with leadership experience spanning national and global levels. Career highlights include launching USAID’s first Anti-Corruption Center and a $150M+ global portfolio, mobilizing $500M+ in new donor funding for anti-corruption through the Integrity for Development Campaign, shaping $100M+ in local anti-corruption programming and influencing practice across 50+ countries, leading $300M+ in governance programs across Latin America and Eurasia, and pioneering national open government efforts at the White House.
Tara Thwing
Tara brings over 17 years of experience in international development, foreign policy, and democratic governance—now with a particular interest in how technology intersects with civic engagement and accountability. Throughout her USAID career, she navigated complex political landscapes in Africa while working to ensure institutions not only deliver services to all citizens, but also protect fundamental rights and create genuine opportunities for democratic participation. Whether briefing Congressional staff on democratic backsliding in Africa, designing multimillion-dollar programs to support civil society and local governance, or facilitating stakeholder consultations in fragile contexts, Tara approaches each challenge with analytical rigor and genuine curiosity about how change actually happens. What drives her work is a belief that good governance isn’t just about policy—it’s about creating spaces where communities can shape their own futures. This perspective led her to Accountability Lab, where she’s now exploring how African civil society organizations are navigating AI adoption, with all its promises and pitfalls for equity and democratic participation. Tara distills complexity into actionable strategy, builds consensus across diverse stakeholders, and translates technical analysis into recommendations that actually make a difference. You’ll always find her learning something new—currently pursuing a graduate certificate in Public Interest Technology—or planning her next outdoor adventure.
Florencia Guerzovich
With over 20 years of experience, Florencia helps organizations navigate complex challenges in development and philanthropy. Her expertise lies in bridging diverse perspectives to deliver sharp, rigorous assessments for action, and in operationalizing and applying politically informed, theory based and systems lenses to Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL). She’s led impact and learning initiatives at the World Bank and TAI and is deeply skilled in analyzing coalitional dynamics and leveraging diverse networks.
Her research as a Non-Resident Fellow is all bout restitching common societies by supporting invisible weavers, leveraging their real-world skills to build trust and lasting connections from within. With our societies at a crossroads, strained by rising authoritarianism and economic shocks, we all must adapt to rapid geopolitical shifts. To navigate these challenges and begin weaving the ties that will carry us through, tapping into the hard-earned ‘muscle memory’ of communities worldwide will ensure we navigate upheaval collectively. Invisible Weavers possess the practical knowledge and relational skills needed to bridge divides and solve problems communities care about. Read more here.
Tomas Bridle
Tom is a development executive with more than 20 years of leadership experience strengthening democratic institutions, increasing transparency and accountability, and bringing integrity and credibility to elections. Tom has designed, managed and evaluated programs in more than 25 countries around the world, including Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Nigeria, DRC, Guatemala, Mexico, Indonesia, Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia.
His fellowship project, the Legislative Initiative for Democratic Resilience (LIDR), connects American lawmakers with their peers from other countries to better understand how the global rise of authoritarianism is affecting legislatures – and what strategies can protect and strengthen the critical role of legislatures in democratic governance and society.
Ekaterina Lysova
Ekaterina is a bilingual anti-corruption and compliance expert with 25 years of global experience across the U.S., Europe, and Eurasia, advising both public and private sectors on corporate integrity, transparency, and anti-corruption policy. Her expertise includes integrity due diligence, sanctions compliance, beneficial ownership transparency, whistleblower protection, and collective action approaches. She has authored multiple international reports and regularly deliver training and public speaking engagements.
Jed Miller
Jed has spent more than 20 years at the intersection of accountability and digital transformation. His work promotes the critical roles of culture, organizational capacity, and narrative in the effective governance of technology.
Since 2016, Jed has focused on the impact of algorithms and AI on decision-making—for governments and corporations, and for the advocates working to balance hype, harm, and opportunity in the adoption of AI.
He has previously served as a digital director and strategic communications advisor for groups including the Ford Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Citizens and Technology (CAT) Lab at Cornell University, among many others.
His fellowship seeks to address the crisis of support for local accountability organizations around the globe, and to highlight chances for rapid action by donors and large NGOs, who face their own crisis of purpose in a shifting democratic landscape.
Matthew Baker
Matthew is a strategic and mission-driven executive with 15+ years of experience leading interdisciplinary programs, managing multi-million dollar budgets, and building high-performing teams. He’s skilled in operational leadership, research translation, and cross-sector partnership development. Adept at turning complex data into actionable strategies, Matthew aligns stakeholders around shared goals, and weaves networks across academia, government, nonprofits, and industry to drive democratic and social impact.
Karin Alexander
A political economist and development professional with 19 years of experience working on governance issues, Karin is an experienced team leader and political economy adviser. Her strengths lie in analysis, the development of adaptive strategic frameworks, and establishing and growing politically smart research and implementation teams. She has a deep understanding of the challenges of governance and public sector reform in complex, fragile, and transitional environments and is committed to using inclusive approaches to support research and collaborative action for change that involves marginalized voices and communities.
David Riveros García
David is an experienced Executive Director with a demonstrated history of working in the civic and social organization industry. He’s skilled in international relations, research, policy analysis, data analysis and visualization, public speaking, and writing. David is also an experienced panelist in several high-level fora like the World Economic Forum, the International Anti-Corruption Conference, and the WB-IMF Annual meetings. He co-founded two international networks related to democracy and transparency.
Corina Rebegea
Corina is driven by a belief that democracy, human rights, and justice aren’t just ideals – they’re the foundation of safe and fulfilled lives. Over the past 15+ years, she’s helped governments become more transparent, supported legal and policy reforms that fight corruption and provide equal rights to all, and defended civic space and democratic resilience in countries facing backsliding, polarization and foreign authoritarian interference.
Corina’s work sits at the intersection of democracy, foreign policy, and geopolitics. She’s always focused on how democratic institutions can be strengthened not just from within, but also by building coalitions and networks in response to global challenges like authoritarian influence, debt, and disinformation.
As a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at AL, she’s researching how autocratization can be reversed and how democratic actors can prepare for windows of opportunity.
Soheïla Comninos
Soheïla Comninos is a human rights expert with over 20 years of international experience advancing accountability, civil society resilience, and rights-based approaches across philanthropy, academia, and humanitarian field operations. For more than eight years at the Open Society Foundations, she shaped and managed global grant portfolios focused on justice, security, and civic space, and built civil society coalitions and funder collaboratives to strengthen learning, coordination, and collective action.
Earlier in her career, Soheïla led humanitarian protection operations with the International Committee of the Red Cross in Darfur, Iraq, Libya, and Central Africa, working directly with conflict-affected populations and authorities in fragile contexts. She currently works as an independent consultant with the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University on a global democracy theory of change, leading research and consultations on the drivers of democratic erosion and pathways for democratic renewal. She also serves as a Trustee on Saferworld’s Board.
Soheïla holds a Master’s degree in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) and a diploma in political science from Sciences Po Paris.