Santiago Lyon is the Head of Advocacy and Education for the Adobe-led Content Authenticity Initiative, focused on accelerating adoption of the C2PA open standard for digital content provenance aimed at combatting misinformation and promoting attribution and transparency online. He has 40 years of experience in photography as an award-winning photojournalist, photo editor, media executive and educator.As a photographer for Reuters and the Associated Press for 20 years, he won multiple photojournalism awards for his work between 1989-1999 where he photographed 9 wars on 4 continents.
In 2003/2004 he was a Nieman Fellow in journalism at Harvard University before being named VP/Director of Photography at the Associated Press, a position he held until 2016.
Under his direction, the AP won 3 Pulitzer Prizes for photography as well as multiple other major photojournalism awards around the world. In 2012 he was a Sulzberger Fellow at Columbia University and was Chair of the Jury for the 2013 World Press Photo contest. Lyon serves on the advisory board of the VII Foundation.