Laura DeNardis is an American author and a scholar of

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and technical infrastructure. She is the Professor and Endowed Chair in Technology, Ethics, and Society at

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. DeNardis is an affiliated Fellow of the

Yale Information Society Project The Information Society Project (ISP) at Yale Law School is an intellectual center studying the implications of the Internet and new information technologies for law and society. The ISP was founded in 1997 by Jack Balkin, Knight Professor of Con ...

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and served as its Executive Director from 2008-2011. She previously served as a Senior Fellow of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and the Director of Research for the Global Commission on Internet Governance. With a background in

information technology engineering Data engineering refers to the building of systems to enable the collection and usage of data. This data is usually used to enable subsequent analysis and data science; which often involves machine learning. Making the data usable usually involves ...

and a doctorate in Science and Technology Studies (STS), her research studies the social and political implications of Internet technical architecture and

governance Governance is the process of interactions through the laws, social norm, norms, power (social and political), power or language of an organized society over a social system (family, tribe, formal organization, formal or informal organization, a ...

. Domestically, she served as an appointed member of the

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Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy (ACICIP) during the Obama Administration. She has more than two decades of experience as an expert consultant in

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companies, foundations, and government agencies. In 2020, Wired UK listed DeNardis as one of "32 Global Innovators Who Are Building a Better Future." Her expertise and scholarship have been featured in Science Magazine,

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, Slate,

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, and

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. In 2015 Laura DeNardis was elected as a member of the

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in Washington, DC.

Early life and education

Laura DeNardis was born in

New Haven, CT New Haven is a city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is located on New Haven Harbor on the northern shore of Long Island Sound in New Haven County, Connecticut and is part of the New York City metropolitan area. With a population of 134,023 ...

, in 1966. She is married to a finance executive Deborah Smith. DeNardis and Smith's was one of the first same sex marriages in Connecticut in 2008. DeNardis earned a PhD in Science and Technology Studies from

Virginia Tech Virginia Tech (formally the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and informally VT, or VPI) is a Public university, public Land-grant college, land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. It also ...

, an MEng from

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...

, an AB in Engineering Science from

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native A ...

, and was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from

. She resides in

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Books

The Internet in Everything
(Yale University Press, 2020)
Researching Internet Governance: Methods, Frameworks, Futures
(MIT Press 2020)
The Turn to Infrastructure in Internet Governance
(Palsgrave, 2016)
The Global War for Internet Governance
(Yale University Press, 2014)
Opening Standards: The Global Politics of Interoperability
(MIT Press, 2011)
Protocol Politics: The Globalization of Internet Governance
(MIT Press, 2009)
Information Technology in Theory
(Thompson, 2007)

Areas of Expertise

*Research Concentration in Global

*U.S. Cyber Policy and International

Cybersecurity Computer security, cybersecurity (cyber security), or information technology security (IT security) is the protection of computer systems and networks from attack by malicious actors that may result in unauthorized information disclosure, the ...

*Cyber Cooperation *Technology, Media and World Politics *Geopolitics of Technical Architecture Design *

Civil Liberties Civil liberties are guarantees and freedoms that governments commit not to abridge, either by constitution, legislation, or judicial interpretation, without due process. Though the scope of the term differs between countries, civil liberties may ...

Online *Cyber Institutions *Privatized

Governance Governance is the process of interactions through the laws, social norm, norms, power (social and political), power or language of an organized society over a social system (family, tribe, formal organization, formal or informal organization, a ...

Intellectual property Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect. There are many types of intellectual property, and some countries recognize more than others. The best-known types are patents, cop ...

*Technical Expertise:

Internet Protocol The Internet Protocol (IP) is the network layer communications protocol in the Internet protocol suite for relaying datagrams across network boundaries. Its routing function enables internetworking, and essentially establishes the Internet. IP h ...

s and Architecture * Applied Mathematical Programming *

Domain Name System The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical and distributed naming system for computers, services, and other resources in the Internet or other Internet Protocol (IP) networks. It associates various information with domain names assigned to ...

and Critical Internet Resources *

Telecommunications Engineering Telecommunications Engineering is a subfield of electrical engineering which seeks to design and devise systems of communication at a distance. The work ranges from basic circuit design to strategic mass developments. A telecommunication enginee ...

*Information and Communication Technology Strategy * Internet Interoperability

Involvement with the
Global Commission on Internet Governance The Global Commission on Internet Governance, chaired by Carl Bildt and launched by two think tanks, the Canadian Centre for International Governance Innovation and UK-based Chatham House, was formed in January 2014 to make recommendations about th ...

DeNardis served as the Research Director of the Global Commission on Internet Governance ourinternet.org (2014–2016). She is also the Senior Fellow of th
Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
(2013–present).

Major Lectures and Presentations

European Consortium for Political Research The European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) is a scholarly association that supports and encourages the training, research and cross-national cooperation of many thousands of academics and graduate students specialising in political sci ...

Global Conference. Referred panel presentation "The Global Internet Governance Trajectory: Actors and States of Play," Montreal, Canada, August 27–29, 2015. *United States

Internet Governance Forum The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is a multistakeholder governance group for policy dialogue on issues of Internet governance. It brings together all stakeholders in the Internet governance debate, whether they represent governments, the privat ...

, Panel on Multistakeholder Governance, George Washington University, Washington, DC, July 16, 2015. *Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2015. Invited presentation, "Research Challenges in Internet Governance," Redmond, WA, July 7, 2015. * Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT). Workshop on Standards and Human Rights, Washington, DC, June 19, 2015 * Columbia SIPA, Invited plenary panel talk, "Conference on Internet Governance and Cybersecurity," New York, NY, May 14, 2015. *

Brookings Institution The Brookings Institution, often stylized as simply Brookings, is an American research group founded in 1916. Located on Think Tank Row in Washington, D.C., the organization conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in ec ...

, Invited presentation at "Global Governance Futures 2025," Washington, DC, May 6, 2015. *Keynote Address at National Cybersecurity Centre One Conference, The Hague, Netherlands, April 13, 2015. *"The Future of Internet Regulation," Invited presentation at the Ohio State University Moritz School of Law Symposium, I/S: A Journal of Law & Policy, March 27, 2015. *Book talk o
"The Global War for Internet Governance,"
New America Foundation, Washington, D.C. April 3, 2014 *Presentation on "The Global War for Internet Governance," Motion Picture Association of American (MPAA), Washington, D.C. April 2, 2014. *Book talk on "The Global War for Internet Governance," The Carnegie Council, New York City, NY. February 26, 2014. *Panel presentation on "The Internet's Top-Level Domain Expansion: Implications for Internet Freedom and Innovation," Beyond the Dot Conference, The Newseum, Washington, D.C. February 19, 2014. *Book talk on "The Global War for Internet Governance," Yale Law School, Information Society Project, New Haven, CT. February 13, 2014. *Book talk on "The Global War for Internet Governance," Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. February 12, 2014. *Panel presentation on "The Paradox of Multistakeholder Internet Governance,
10th Annual State of the Net Conference
The Newseum, Washington, DC. January 28, 2014. *Panel presentation o
“Internet Governance 2020: Geopolitics and the Future of the Internet,”
Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C. January 23, 2014. *Panel presentation o
Developing a Strategic Vision for Internet Governance,”
Eight Annual United Nations Internet Governance Forum, Bali, Indonesia. October 22, 2013. *Presentation on "Thinking Clearly about Multistakeholder Internet Governance," Global Internet Governance Academic Network Annual Conference, Bali, Indonesia. October 21, 2013.

Footnotes

External links

Home pages
Home Page of Laura DeNardisMIT Press Author Profile for Laura DeNardisYale Information Society ProjectAmerican University School of Communication
Audio and video *Radio interview on Canada's CBC discussing
What Will the Internet Look Like with 5 Billion Users
" April 17, 2015. *United States Department of State video
The Internet Belongs to Everyone
" September 17, 2014. *Inaugural CIGI Lecture
The Global War for Internet Governance
" Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, September 9, 2014. *ABC News Radio interview on Internet fracturing, KTRS 550
Is This the End of the Internet
" July 24, 2014. *Keynote Address at WebScience 2014, "The Global War for Internet Governance," Bloomington, Indiana, U.S., June 24, 2014. *Radio Interview on "The Diane Rehm Show" on NPR, "The Worldwide Debate for New Rules for the World Wide Web," April 7, 2014. *Video of Oxford University Keynote Address,
Technologies of Dissent
at "A Decade in Internet Time" conference on September 3, 2011. *KZSU-FM/Stanford University Radio Interview on "Protocol Politics," July 21, 2010 with Dave Levine at Hearsay Culture Radio. {{DEFAULTSORT:Denardis, Laura Living people American University faculty and staff Dartmouth College alumni Yale Information Society Project Fellows 1966 births