Joshua Gordon

Joshua Gordon is senior vice president of the Democracy Council and CEO of Global Direct Telecom, an international carrier and consulting firm.� Mr. Gordon was previously Vice President and Managing Director, Voice, for Verestar, Inc., an American Tower company (NYSE: AMT), and Director of Strategic Networks for Justice Telecom.

Besides his work in the field of international telecommunications, Mr. Gordon was a Degree Fellow at the East-West Center in Hawaii where he specialized in tracking democracy, freedom of information and media censorship in East and Southeast Asia.� Prior to his tenure at the East-West Center, Mr. Gordon was Programs Manager and Press Officer at Freedom House in New York and in Washington, DC, where he administered projects aimed at monitoring and promoting democratization in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, Iraq, Cuba and elsewhere.

Mr. Gordon�s commentary on democracy and telecommunication issues has appeared in various publications including The Asian Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, MSNBC and The International Herald-Tribune.
Mr. Gordon graduated Magna Cum Laude from Williams College, earned an MA in Southeast Asian Studies from the University of Hawaii-Manoa and received a JD from Harvard Law School.