Advisory Board
The Director of the Institute is advised by a distinguished international Advisory Board of persons with expertise or experience relevant to our work. The Board gives guidance on general research directions and assists in fundraising and income generation.
Members of Advisory Board
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Sir Alex Allan served as the first UK Government e-Envoy, and is former chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee and Head of Intelligence Assessment, UK Cabinet Office.
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Toby Coppel is a partner of Virgin Green Fund. He is former Managing Director of Yahoo! Europe / Canada and was a co-founder of Windsor Media.
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Philip Evans serves as Senior Partner and Managing Director with The Boston Consulting Group, Boston. He founded BCG's media and Internet practices, and consults within the financial services, consumer goods, media, and information technology industries.
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Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin has been a Councillor of State in France since 1986 and is President of the Internet Rights Forum, Paris (Le Forum des droits sur l'internet, FDI)
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Andrew Graham is the former Master of Balliol College, University of Oxford. He was the driving force in establishing the OII, and its Acting Director until July 2002. From 2001 to 2011 he was the founding Chairman of the OII's Advisory Board.
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Joi Ito is Director of MIT's MediaLab and Chair of the Board of Creative Commons, where he previously served as CEO. A pioneer of the Internet start-up revolution in the 1990s, he founded and helped establish a number of Internet companies in Japan.
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Eddie C.Y. Kuo (PhD, Minnesota) is a Professorial Fellow in the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), of which he was the Founding Dean of the School (1992-2003)
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James Manyika is a Director (senior partner) at McKinsey & Company and one of the leaders of their Global High Tech Media and Telecom Practice based in Silicon Valley. He leads the McKinsey Global Institute, the firm's business and economics research arm.
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Christopher Michel is the Managing Director of Nautilus Ventures. He is the founder of Affinity Labs and Military.com and serves as a Director of International Data Group (IDG), Dale Carnegie, and Ventana. He is also a Governor on the USO World Board.
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Professor Eli Noam is Director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) at Columbia Business School, New York, and has been Professor of Economics and Finance at Columbia Business School since 1976
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Cory Ondrejka is currently a director of engineering at Facebook. An entrepreneur and software developer, Ondrejka co-founded Linden Lab, creators of Second Life, and Walletin, acquired by Facebook in 2010.
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Andrew Pinder is the past Chairman of BECTA and the former e-Envoy, UK Cabinet Office. As e-Envoy based in the UK Cabinet Office, Andrew reported directly to the Prime Minister in leading the drive to get the UK online
Professor Nigel Shadbolt FREng CEng CPsychol
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Professor Nigel Shadbolt is Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Southampton University and Past President of the British Computer Society
Professor Richard Susskind OBE
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A pioneer in the field of information technology and law, Richard Susskind is IT Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, and chairman of the Advisory Board of the Oxford Internet Institute.
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Nina Wakeford is Director of INCITE (Incubator for Critical Inquiry into Technology and Ethnography), Reader in Sociology and ESRC Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths College in the University of London
Last updated on: 17 May 2013
