Juan Ortiz-Freuler explores the relationship between geopolitics and the design and deployment of networked technologies. His current research focuses on the US-China rift and its impacts on internet governance, internet fragmentation and the strategic responses emerging from global majority countries.

He is an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard (2018-2024), a co-initiator for the non-aligned tech movement, and a PhD student in communication at USC. Ortiz-Freuler has previously held positions as a senior policy fellow at the Web Foundation, where he worked closely with Tim Berners-Lee, and as a researcher and advocate at several nonprofit organizations in Argentina and Mexico. A graduate from Di Tella Law School in Buenos Aires, Ortiz-Freuler has completed Masters degrees in both public policy and social science of the internet at the University of Oxford.