About

Nat Kretchun is the Vice President for Programs at the Open Technology Fund (OTF), a Congressionally funded non-profit organization that supports the development and deployment of anti-censorship, privacy and security technologies for populations living under repressive information censorship regimes. Nat oversees the operations of OTF’s multi-million dollar funding portfolio.

He previously served as a Senior Associate Director at InterMedia, where he managed quantitative and qualitative research projects with a particular focus on Asia and hard-to-access populations.

Since 2009, he has done extensive research with North Korean refugees, defectors and travelers, running annual surveys and conducting qualitative studies focused on information access in North Korea. He is the primary author of A Quiet Opening: North Koreans in a Changing Media Environment and its follow-up, Compromising Connectivity: Information Dynamics Between the State and Society in a Digitizing North Korea. 

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