Faine Greenwood

Faine Greenwood is a researcher at the Signal Program at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, focused on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles and spatial information in humanitarian aid. Greenwood’s work centers in particular on defining privacy risks posed by the civilian use of drones in disaster, as well as the use of small drones by non combatants in conflict and complex emergency environments. Before coming to the Signal Program, Greenwood worked as a field analyst at New America, and co-authored “Drones and Aerial Observation,” one of the first primers on civilian UAV technology. A former Southeast Asia correspondent, Greenwood is a regular contributor to Slate and Foreign Policy.