About the IAPP

Yoel Roth is a trust and safety practitioner and researcher. He is the Vice President of Trust & Safety at Match Group, the parent company of Tinder, Hinge, and dozens of dating apps used by millions of people worldwide. He is also a Non-Resident Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where his research, teaching, and writing focus on trustworthy governance approaches for social media, AI, and other emerging technologies.

Previously, Yoel was the Head of Trust & Safety at Twitter. For more than 7 years, he helped build and lead the teams responsible for Twitter’s content moderation, integrity, and election security efforts.

Yoel received his PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. His research examined the technical, policy, business, and governance dynamics of app stores, social networking, and online dating.