International Fellow and Lecturer, Institute of Mass Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich; Chair, NonCommercial Users Constituency, and member of the Nominating Committee, in ICANN; member, Coordination Committee of NETmundial Initiative; core faculty member, European and South schools on Internet governance; advisor to the World Economic Forum’s Future of the Internet Initiative; member of the Advisory Group of the Global Internet Policy Observatory; organizational representative to the Network of Internet and Society Research Centers; Affiliated Researcher at the Institute for Tele-Information, Columbia University. Former member of: GNSO Council, ICANN; Euralo Board of Directors, ICANN; Multistakeholder Advisory Group, IGF; expert advisors to the high-level Panel on Global Internet Cooperation and Governance Mechanisms; UN Working Group on Internet Governance; Group of High-Level Advisors of UN Global Alliance for ICT and Development; Steering Committee of Global Internet Governance Academic Network. Previously, co-editor of the MIT Press book series, The Information Revolution and Global Politics; Senior Associate, Centre for International Governance, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies; President, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility; Advisor, World Economic Forum Task Force on the Global Digital Divide; Senior Associate and Director, Project on the Information Revolution and World Politics, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; founding Associate Director, Communication, Culture and Technology Program, Georgetown University; Assistant Professor of Communication, University of California, San Diego; adjunct professor, School of Advanced International Studies and Georgetown School of Business. PhD, Political Science, Columbia University. Expertise: global governance of the Internet and ICTs; the information revolution and world politics. www.williamdrake.org [home] and www.uzh.academia.edu/WilliamDrake [publications]