Jonathan Zittrain Jonathan Zittrain is a co-founder of Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society and from 1997 to 2000 served as its first executive director. He further holds the Chair in Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University and is a principal of the Oxford Internet Institute. Zittrain is the Jack N. & Lillian R. Berkman Visiting Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School.

Richard Allan (born 11 February 1966) was the Liberal Democrats Member of Parliament for Sheffield Hallam from the general election of Thursday the 2 May 1997 until the dissolution of Parliament on 11 April 2005. In 1997, he unseated Irvine Patnick of the Conservative Party achieving a majority of 8,221 with a swing of 15.3%. In 2001, he was re-elected with an increased majority of 9,347. During his tenure, Allan held various committee seats, …

William H. Dutton is Director of the Oxford Internet Institute, Professor of Internet Studies, University of Oxford, and Fellow of Balliol College. He was previously a Professor in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, which he joined in 1980, where he was elected President of the Faculty.

Derek Murray Wyatt (born 4 December 1949) is a British politician, and Labour Member of Parliament for Sittingbourne and Sheppey in Kent, first elected in 1997, having previously been a councillor in the London Borough of Haringey. Wyatt is chairman of the House of Commons all party internet group. He advocates forcing internet service providers (ISPs) through licensing to take steps to block spam before it arrives in inboxes.

Andrew Graham (born June 20, 1942 in Perranporth, Cornwall) is an academic and Master of Balliol College, Oxford. Graham graduated from Oxford University in 1964. He was economic adviser to Harold Wilson, Prime Minister 1967-69 and 1974-76 and later economic advisor to the Leader of the Labour Party, John Smith. He was a Tutorial Fellow in Economics at Balliol College from 1969-97. With the help of a very substantial donation from The Shirley Foundation, …

Christine L. Borgman is Professor and University of California Presidential Chair in Information Studies at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. She was previously visiting professor at the Oxford Internet Institute (Oxford University), Loughborough University, Fulbright Visiting Professor at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Eötvös Loránd University (University of Budapest), …

Pekka Himanen (born October 19, 1973) is a Finnish philosopher. He studied philosophy (and computer science as a minor) at the University of Helsinki and received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the same university in 1994 for a thesis on philosophy of religion on "The challenge of Bertrand Russell" as the youngest Ph.D. in Finland. He has done research work in Finland (University of Helsinki), the United Kingdom, and the United States (Stanford University, …

Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley, DBE, FRA, FRE, FRSA (born September 16, 1933), is a British businesswoman and philanthropist. She had originally arrived in Britain as an unaccompanied child refugee. Shirley was the founder of the IT company, F.I. Group (now Xansa) in 1962. She adopted the name "Steve" to help her in the male-dominated IT industry. She officially retired at the age of 60 in 1993 and has taken up philanthropy since then.

She has taught Internet Law, Copyright, and Information Privacy at Brooklyn Law School and was a Visiting Fellow with the Oxford Internet Institute , teaching a joint course with the Said Business School , Media Strategies for a Networked World . Previously, she was a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation , specializing in intellectual property and First Amendment issues, and a litigator with Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel in New York.

Judy Wajcman 's research has centred on technological change, employment relations and organisational analysis. She is an expert in feminist theory in these areas and has developed a theoretical framework for the analysis of technology and social change, known as the social shaping approach. She conducted one of the earliest British studies of women workers and gender relations in the home and the workplace, and was a co-founder of the women's studies programme at Cambridge University.

Tobias Escher at the OII is a Research Assistant and a DPhil Student

Seamus Ross Seamus Ross , Director of Humanities Computing and Information Management at the University of Glasgow, runs HATII (Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute) ( http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk ) of which he is the founding director.

Wendy Seltzer is a visiting assistant professor at Brooklyn Law School, teaching Internet Law, Information Privacy, and Copyright, and a fellow with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. She was previously an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Before joining EFF, Wendy taught Internet Law as an adjunct professor at St. John's University School of Law, and practiced intellectual property and technology litigation at Kramer Levin in New York.

Jonathan Zittrain is the Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University. He is one of the world’s leading Internet scholars with a wealth of firsthand knowledge from his diverse background spanning the private, public and academic sectors.

Nimrod Kozlovski Adjunct Professor of Law Nimrod Kozlovski is the author of the book The Computer and the Legal Process (Israeli Bar Association Press, 2000) and numerous articles on the Internet and privacy law, computer search and seizure and electronic evidence. He is an adjunct professor of law at New York Law School, teaching CyberCrime, CyberTerror and Digital Law Enforcement.

Dr Andrew Chadwick is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations . His principal research interests are, broadly, the comparative politics of the Internet, especially in the United States and Britain, but incorporating other countries and levels of governance where relevant.

Yorick Wilks is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield, where he directs the Institute for Language, Speech and Hearing. He received his M. A. and Ph.D. (1968) from Pembroke College, Cambridge. He has also taught or researched at Stanford, Edinburgh, Geneva, Essex and New Mexico State Universities.

Meyer, E.T. (forthcoming) Digital Photography. In: K.St Amant and S.Kelsey (eds) Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication (Information Science Reference: Hershey, PA). Meyer, E.T. (2007) Tensions between established practice and changing technologies: Marine mammal scientists and digital photography. Paper presented at 2007 Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) conference, Montreal, Canada, October 11-13.

Deborah L. Wheeler < dwheeler@usna.edu > Deborah L. Wheeler holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Chicago. Her areas of research interest are technology and social change; IT and international development; and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Dr Victoria Nash Director of Graduate Studies, Policy and Research Officer, August 2002 -

Project manager for the RAND Europe study of Internet co- and self-regulation in 2007: Options for and effectiveness of self-regulation in the information society, for European Commission DG INFSO

Dr Currah teaches the Preliminary Examination in Human Geography lecture course on the Geographical Dynamics of Capitalist Economies . He also lectures on the Spaces of Finance and Innovation , and organizes a seminar series for Philosophy, Nature and Practice of Geography , for the Final Honours School.

Barbara Simons was president of the Association for Computing Machinery ( ACM ) from July 1998 until June 2000 and secretary of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents in 1999. She earned her doctorate in computer science from University of California, Berkeley in 1981; her dissertation solved a major open problem in scheduling theory. In 1980, she became a research staff member at IBM's San Jose Research Center (now Almaden).

Becky Lentz Becky was most recently The Ford Foundation’s first program officer for media policy and technology from 2001 to 2007. She joined the Foundation with experience in the corporate and non-profit sectors, state and city government where she developed software, designed and implemented multilingual public information campaigns and directed strategic planning, evaluation, and policy analysis projects related to information technology.

Diana Owen is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of American Studies at Georgetown University. She received her doctorate in Political Science, with a minor in Statistics, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her major fields are American politics, political psychology/sociology, and methodology with a focus on empirical methods and statistical analysis.

Paul Allan David (AB, PhD, Harvard University; MA Oxon, Docttore Honoris Causa, Torino) is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Economic History, University of Oxford, and Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is also Professor of Economics (Emeritus), and Senior Fellow, at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Stanford University.