Stefaan G. Verhulst is Co-Founder and Chief Research and Development Officer of the Governance Laboratory @New York University (GovLab), an action research centre dedicated to improving governance through advances in technology. He is senior advisor to the Markle Foundation in New York, where he was Chief of Research. Previously he was Director of the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at Oxford University (UK) from 1996. He has published widely in the areas of communications law and policy.