page_title: Katherine Maher
section_title: Wikimedia Foundation
hierarchical_section_title: Katherine Maher / Career / Wikimedia Foundation
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Closing ceremony of Wikimania 2017
context_page_description: Katherine Roberts Maher is the chief executive officer and executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation.
  Before this, she was their chief communications officer.
context_section_description: From April 2014 to March 2016, Maher was chief communications officer of the Wikimedia Foundation. During this time, she gave an interview in The Washington Post on United States copyright law.
  In March 2016, Maher became interim executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation following the resignation of then executive director, Lila Tretikov. Maher was appointed executive director in June 2016. The appointment was announced by Jimmy Wales on June 24, 2016 at Wikimania 2016 in Esino Lario, Italy, effective June 23, 2016.
  Maher states that she focuses on global digital inclusion as a way to improve and protect the rights of people to information through technology.
caption: Maher and Jimmy Wales at Wikimania 2017
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