Eirliani Abdul Rahman was a fellow at New America’s Open Technology Institute. She is currently a Senior Fellow at Georgetown University and is concurrently, a Research Affiliate at the Minderoo Center for Technology and Democracy at the University of Cambridge. She holds a doctorate in public health from Harvard University, where she was a Prajna Leadership and Julio Frenk DrPH Fellow. Eirliani was one of the three women who resigned from the Twitter Trust and Safety Council in response to the meteoric rise in hate speech, following Elon Musk's purchase of the platform. In response, Musk dissolved the Council entirely four days later. Her work has been profiled by inter alia, the BBC, CBC, NPR, Slate Magazine, Grid News, Business Insider, and Harvard Public Health. Her opinion pieces have been published by inter alia, Newsweek, Chatham House and the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP).
She was named the recipient of the 2021 American Public Health Association's International Health Section Student Annual Meeting Grant. She was previously Senior Assistant Director at the Singapore National Council of Social Service. From 2005-2015, Eirliani served in the Singapore Foreign Service and was third-in-command of the Singapore Embassies in Berlin and Delhi. Winner of the 2015 BMW Foundation's Responsible Leaders Award, she was Program Director at the Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation, founded by the Nobel Peace laureate.
A Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, she is co-founder of nonprofit YAKIN (Youths, Adult survivors & Kin In Need), which helps adult survivors of child sexual abuse. She is a member of Chatham House in London. An award-winning author, Eirliani's memoir–written under a pen name–was nominated for the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize. She also contributed a case study to the medical textbook "Essentials of Global Health", edited by Babulal Sethia, Past President and Global Health Lead of the Royal Society of Medicine. The book won first prize under the Public Health category in the 2019 British Medical Association book awards. She is co-author of "Survivors: Breaking the Silence on Child Sexual Abuse". Now in its third print run, the book won joint 2nd Prize at the inaugural Golden Doors Award in 2020. Eirliani edited Nobel Peace laureate Kailash Satyarthi's book "Will for Children", published in 2016.