Marc Ginsberg

Marc Charles Ginsberg (born October 18, 1950) is a U.S. lawyer and former diplomat who currently leads The Coalition for a Safer Web, a non-profit dedicated to combating cyber terrorism and extremist incitement.

Early life Ginsberg was born in 1950 in New York City, and from 1960 to 1968 was raised in Israel, Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon. He fluently speaks English, Hebrew, Arabic, and French. He earned a B.A. degree from American University and was a M.B.A. candidate at Georgetown University before earning a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1978.

Career As a college freshman in 1971, Ginsberg began serving as a legislative assistant to Senator Edward Kennedy when he chaired the Senate Subcommittee on Refugees until 1977.

Ginsberg was co-founder and served as President of Layalina Productions, the first United States organization to produce non-profit Arabic-language television for the Arabic world. Layalina has two headquarters located in Washington, D.C. and Amman, Jordan.

Ginsberg served a two-year term on the board of directors of the AARP Foundation from 2009 to 2011.

In 2013, Ginsberg became chief executive officer of the and Chief Executive Officer of Peaceworks, LLC. With offices in Israel, Palestine, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the One Voice Movement fosters grassroots advocacy among the next generation of Israelis and Palestinians to promote a two-state solution to the Arab–Israeli conflict.

From 2017-2019 Ginsberg served as an adviser to Middle East and European governments to interdict Al Qaeda and Islamic State social media-based terrorist and recruitment operations, and as a consultant (Senior Global Director) for the Counter Extremism Project based in Washington, D.C.

In 2019, Ginsberg founded the Coalition for a Safer Web, a cyber counter-terrorism and anti-extremism non-profit organization whose mission is to prevent social media platforms from serving as pathways for extremists and terrorists to plot, incite, and execute domestic and foreign acts of violence. The Coalition for a Safer Web currently advises Congress, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and the National Security Council on social media-based extremist incitement and operational planning, as well as private industry and civil society organizations.

Ginsberg regularly contributes articles to periodicals such as The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, The Hill, the International New York Times, the Baltimore Sun, and the Diplomatic Courier. He appears regularly on C-SPAN, CNN, CNBC, WTOP Radio (Washington, DC), as well as Middle East and European media outlets. Ginsberg also served as an on-air contributor to the Netflix television series Terrorism's Close Calls.