Roger Dingledine is President and co-founder of the Tor Project, a non-profit that writes software to keep people around the world safe on the Internet.

Roger is a leading researcher in anonymous communications and a frequent public speaker. He coordinates and mentors academic researchers working on Tor-related topics, he is on the board of organizers for the international Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), and he has authored or co-authored over two dozen peer-reviewed research papers on anonymous communications and privacy tools.

Among his achievements, Roger was chosen by the MIT Technology Review as one of its top 35 innovators under 35, he co-authored the Tor design paper that won a Usenix Security "Test of Time" award, and he has been recognized by Foreign Policy magazine as one of its top 100 global thinkers.

Roger graduated from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds a Master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science as well as undergraduate degrees in computer science and mathematics.