Christoph Busch is Professor of Law and Director of the European Legal Studies Institute at the University of Osnabrück, Germany. Additionally, he is an affiliate fellow at the Yale Information Society Project, at Yale Law School, New Haven. His areas of research include the regulation of digital platforms, consumer law, digital services, personalized law and algorithmic regulation. He is also a member of the European Commission’s Expert Group for the EU Observatory on the Online Platform Economy, which provides expert advice on EU platform regulation. For the Expert Group, he coauthored the report “Uncovering Blindspots in the Policy Debate on Platform Power” published in March 2021. In addition, in 2021, the European Commission appointed him as a member of the EU Consumer Policy Advisory Group, which is the Commission’s main forum to consult with stakeholders on EU consumer policy.
Bhaskar Chakravorti is the Dean of Global Business at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, the founding executive director of Fletcher’s Institute for Business in the Global Context and chair of Digital Planet, one of Fletcher’s leading research and convening initiatives. Chakravorti serves on the Fletcher faculty as Professor of the Practice of International Business. He also served on the Global Future Council on Innovation for the World Economic Forum and was nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, is chair of the Advisory Board for the Mastercard Policy Center for the Digital Economy, senior advisor for Digital Inclusion at the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, a senior fellow at the Centre for Social and Economic Progress and on the Advisory Board of the UNDP’s Center for Private Sector in Development and consultant to the World Bank. A former partner of McKinsey and the Monitor Group, faculty member of Harvard Business School and a distinguished scholar at MIT’s Legatum Center, Chakravorti is the author of the book The Slow Pace of Fast Change: Bringing Innovations to Market in a Connected World (Harvard Business Press, 2003) and hundreds of articles, and is the creator of the widely used Digital Evolution Index.
Vasudev Devadasan is a project officer at the Centre for Communication Governance, National Law University Delhi, as well as a research consultant at the Supreme Court of India. His research has covered the impact of technology on constitutional law and democracy, in particular the regulation of free speech and press and election law.
Daniel W. Drezner is Professor of International Politics, a nonresident senior fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and the codirector of The Fletcher School at Tufts University’s Russia and Eurasia Program. Previously, he taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has also held positions with Civic Education Project, the RAND Corporation and the US Department of the Treasury and received fellowships from the German Marshall Fund of the United States, Council on Foreign Relations and Harvard University. Drezner has written seven books, including All Politics Is Global (Princeton University Press, 2008) and Theories of International Politics and Zombies (Princeton University Press, 2011), and edited three others, including The Uses and Abuses of Weaponized Interdependence (Brookings Institution Press, 2021).
Carlo Garbarino is Associate Professor of Tax Law at SDA Bocconi, where he is the director of the Tax and Accounting Observatory of SDA Bocconi and teaches in the Executive Master of Finance. Garbarino is the author of several monographs in Italian and English, dealing with various dimensions of international taxation and international tax treaties. His thorough knowledge of domestic law is matched by that of international matters, with particular attention to the emerging issues of global governance. He developed a comparative approach in the tax field connected to the circulation of policy models, resonant with the latest developments in institutional law and economics. Part of the top 5 percent SSRN, he is one of the most well-known scholars of comparative and international taxation.
Eric Goldman is Professor of Law at Santa Clara University School of Law in the Silicon Valley. He also codirects the High Tech Law Institute and supervises the Privacy Law Certificate. His research and teaching focuses on Internet, IP and advertising law topics, and he blogs on these topics at the Technology & Marketing Law Blog (http://blog.ericgoldman.org). Managing IP magazine has twice named him to a shortlist of North American “IP Thought Leaders,” and he has been named an “IP Vanguard” by the California State Bar’s IP Section. Before joining the Santa Clara Law faculty, he was an assistant professor at Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee and practiced law in the Silicon Valley.
Dominik K. Hofstetter is a Swiss-trained jurist with an LLM. in International Law from The Fletcher School at Tufts University (2022). During his LLM, Hofstetter pursued thesis research on the principle of international comity and the comity abstention doctrine in US jurisprudence under the Alien Tort Statute as an independent researcher at Harvard Law School. Hofstetter served as a research assistant to Professor Joel P. Trachtman and Professor Thomas Burri, researching matters in the fields of international economic law, artificial intelligence and public international law. He is assistant editor of The International Court of Justice and Decolonisation: New Directions from the Chagos Advisory Opinion (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
Mark Jit is Professor of Vaccine Epidemiology and head of the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). He also holds visiting professorial appointments at the NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health and the School of Public Health, University of Hong Kong. His research group focuses on epidemiological and economic modeling of vaccines to support evidence-based public health decision-making. Jit has published over 250 papers covering a range of vaccine-preventable or potentially vaccine-preventable diseases including COVID-19, measles, HPV, pneumococcus, rotavirus, influenza, Group B Streptococcus, dengue, EV71 and RSV as well as methodological papers advancing the ways vaccines are evaluated.
Jhalak Mrignayani Kakkar is both executive director at the Centre for Communication Governance (CCG) as well as Visiting Professor at the National Law University Delhi. Kakkar is an expert member of the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI) Multistakeholder Experts Group Plenary and member of the Working Group on Data Governance. She is an expert member of the United Nations Broadband Commission Working Group on AI Capacity Building and also serves on the board of the Global Network Initiative. Kakkar also serves on the steering committee for the Action Coalition on Meaningful Transparency.
Simone Lipkind is the Research Associate for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. She graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Tufts University, where she received her BA in Arabic and International Relations with a focus on the Middle East and South Asia.
Federico Lupo-Pasini is Associate Professor in Commercial and Corporate Law at Durham Law School. Lupo-Pasini joined the Law School in 2018 as Associate Professor in Corporate and Commercial Law. His research focuses on international financial law and financial regulation. Previously, Lupo-Pasini also worked as a consultant for various international organizations and governments around the world on financial policy and international trade policy. Since 2017, he is an advisor to the government of Northern Ireland on the trade implications of Brexit.
Shashank Mohan is a program manager at the Centre for Communication Governance, National Law University Delhi. As a lawyer and public policy researcher, his focus lies in technology policy. His research has covered areas of digital privacy, online speech, intellectual property, intermediary liability, artificial intelligence, net neutrality and open access to knowledge and the Internet. He also previously served as Counsel to the Software Freedom Law Centre, India (SFLC.in).
Artur Pericles L. Monteiro is the Wikimedia Fellow at the Information Society Project and Associate Research Scholar at Yale Law School. He is an editor of the Digital Future Whitepaper Series. His work focuses on platform governance, anonymity, freedom of speech, privacy and data protection. He has spoken at conferences at Yale Law School, the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and George Washington University. Previously, Artur was head of research at InternetLab, an independent research center on law and technology in Brazil. He holds a doctorate in law, an MSc, and an LLB from the University of São Paulo (Brazil), where he led the clinic on free speech and the Internet.
Farah Pandith is an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, foreign policy strategist and former diplomat. Farah is a pioneer in the field of countering violent extremism (CVE), has been a political appointee in the George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations. She served on the Secretary of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) from 2015 to 2017, where she also chaired the HSAC subcommittee on countering violent extremism. Her book, How We Win: How Cutting-Edge Entrepreneurs, Political Visionaries, Enlightened Business Leaders, and Social Media Mavens Can Defeat the Extremist Threat (Custom House), was published in 2019. She was a senior advisor and commissioner on the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ CVE Commission Report, is a senior advisor at the Anti-Defamation League and maintains an affiliation with Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.
Joel P. Trachtman is the Henry J. Braker Professor of Commercial Law at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and director of the Center for International Law and Governance at Fletcher. Joel has served as a member of the boards of the American Journal of International Law, the European Journal of International Law, the Journal of International Economic Law, the Cambridge Review of International Affairs, and the Singapore Yearbook of International Law. He has consulted for a number of governments and international organizations, including the United Nations, the World Bank and the OECD. From 1998 to 2001, he was academic dean of The Fletcher School, and during 2000 and 2001, he served as dean ad interim.
Jufang Wang is the deputy director of the UK-based Oxford Global Society and the coordinator of its Digital Cluster. Previously, she was the deputy director of the Platforms, Governance, and Global Society (PGG) program based at Wolfson College, Oxford University and had been a senior news editor and manager for many years in China.
Josephine Wolff is Associate Professor of Cybersecurity Policy and has been at The Fletcher School at Tufts University since 2019. Her research foci include liability for cybersecurity incidents, international internet governance, cyber-insurance, cybersecurity workforce development and the economics of information security. Her first book, You’ll See This Message When It Is Too Late: The Legal and Economic Aftermath of Cybersecurity Breaches, was published by MIT Press in 2018. Her second book, Cyberinsurance Policy: Rethinking Risk in an Age of Ransomware, Computer Fraud, Data Breaches, and Cyberattacks, was published by MIT Press in 2022.