Robin Mansell
Robin Mansell (PhD 1984, Simon Fraser University Canada) is Professor Emerita, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science. She is Fellow, British Academy, Academia Europaea, and CITI (Columbia Institute for Tele-Information), Past-President International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), and Advisory Board member Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) and LIRNEAsia, Sri Lanka. She holds a Doctorate Honoris Causa University of Fribourg and is recipient of the International Communication Association C. Edwin Baker award. Her research focuses on media and communications regulation and policy, digital platform governance, privacy and surveillance, and the political economy of innovation in digital technologies. She is author of more than 120 papers. Her 23 books include Handbook of Media and Communication Governance (2024 Edward Elgar, co-edited), and Imagining the Internet: Communication, Innovation and Governance (2012 Oxford University Press).