Alexander Corbeil has spent more than 15 years working at the intersection of international security and online safety. He is a senior Trust and Safety leader specializing in online safety policy, regulatory compliance, and the design of AI-powered content enforcement systems. His work has included developing and implementing policies to address violent extremism, terrorism, hate speech, misinformation, and other serious online harms.
Alexander previously served as TikTok’s Head of Regional Policy for the United States and Canada, where he led policy development and enforcement efforts addressing terrorist, criminal, and misinformation content. He also helped safeguard the platform during the 2021 and 2025 Canadian federal elections and the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
Earlier in his career, Alexander worked at Public Safety Canada’s Canada Centre for Community Engagement and Prevention of Violence. He led the development of Canada’s national policy framework for addressing terrorist content online and contributed to the development of the federal government’s online harms legislation. He also taught graduate courses on terrorism and intelligence at Carleton University’s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs and led social media intelligence projects for a private intelligence firm supporting counterterrorism operations in the Middle East and Africa.
His writing has appeared in Foreign Affairs, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Globe and Mail, West Point’s CTC Sentinel, and The Oxford Handbook of Cyber Security. He holds master’s and bachelor’s degrees in political science from the University of Toronto.
