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The CEO – Andre Oboler

Adj. Assoc. Prof. Andre Oboler is CEO and Managing Director of the Online Hate Prevention Institute. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Law School at La Trobe University, a Fellow of the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, and an Expert Member of the Australian Government’s Delegation to the International Holocaust Remebrance Alliance (IHRA).

He served as a co-chair of the Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism from 2009 to 2017 and co-led its working group on antisemitism online and in the media, on the expert advisory group for the Malmö International Forum on Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism, and as a panellist for the UN’s 13th Session of the Forum on Minority Issues which focused on hate speech and social media. He has served as a Vice-President of the IEEE Computer Society and Chair of the IEEE’s Global Policy Caucus.

He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Lancaster University (UK) and both an LLM(Juris Doctor) and an honours degree in Computer Science from Monash University (Australia).

The Team

In addition to the CEO, the Online Hate Prevention Institute has a team of ten additional staff (as of May 2026). They include our senior analyst, communications manager, software engineer, donor relations manager, and six analysts. The team works remotely and is spread across Australia.

  • Three of our team have PhDs with an additional team member in the final stages of a PhD. These PhDs are in the fields of: computer science, sociology, philosophy, and humanities.
  • A number of our team members have worked as advisers to ministers and government.
  • A number of our team members have worked in defence and enforcement agencies.
  • A number of our team members have worked in cybersecurity.
  • A number of our team members have worked in journalism.

In addition to our expertise in hate speech and specifically online hate speech across the team, we have team members with specific expertise in counterterrorism, anti-money laundering, national security policy, defence policy, research ethics, public policy, law, software development, and journalism.