Oscar Soria is a global nonprofit executive with 30 years of experience leading international organizations and campaigns focused on human rights, environmental governance, digital accountability, and multilateral policy engagement.

He is the Chief Executive Officer of Top Social, an advisory firm working with civil society leaders, multilateral institutions, and philanthropic actors on technology accountability, digital rights, and human rights advocacy. In this role, he advises UN officials, foundations, and NGOs on civic space protection, human rights, platform governance, and systemic policy responses to artificial intelligence, digital disinformation and algorithmic risk.

He is also Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of The Common Initiative, an independent think-and-action tank focused on biodiversity-centered economic reform, rights-based approaches and global environmental governance. The organization supports cross-sector collaboration around planetary boundaries, rights-based sustainable finance, and multilateral environmental frameworks.

Previously, Soria served as Campaign Director at Avaaz (2014–2023), overseeing global advocacy and crisis response across 194 countries. He managed international campaigns related to human rights, digital disinformation, health access, migration, platform governance, and civil liberties, and led partnerships with humanitarian networks and rights organizations. Prior to that, he was Director of Media and External Relations at WWF International (2012–2014), and held senior roles at Greenpeace International (1999–2012).

Soria has led civil society engagement in multilateral policy processes including the Paris Climate Agreement, the UN Global Compact on Migration, the EU Digital Services Act, and international frameworks on AI regulation, climate and biodiversity finance. He has represented global advocacy organizations in formal proceedings at the IMF, World Bank, G7, G20, BRICS, WTO and other policy negotiations and UN agencies and negotiation spaces, such as UNFCCC, UNCBD, UNCCD, OHCHR, UNHCR, UNDP, UNEP, WFP, OCHA and UNDESA.

He is a regular source and commentator for international media on global economic, environmental, and civil rights policy, digital regulation, and civil society. His work and analysis have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, BBC, Reuters, Al Jazeera, Financial Times, The Associated Press, CNN, and Le Monde, among others.

He began his career as a journalist and senior editor in Argentina, where his reporting on social and environmental issues was recognized by the Inter American Press Association. He later served in advisory and governance roles with Amnesty International, Oxfam, and the Holy See’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.