Ronald Deibert
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Ronald Deibert at Stockholm Internet Forum 2014
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Ronald J. Deibert, OOnt (PhD, University of British Columbia) is professor of Political Science, and Director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto.[1] The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary research and development "hothouse" working at the intersection of the Internet, global security, and human rights.[2] He is a co-founder and a principal investigator of the OpenNet Initiative and Information Warfare Monitor projects.[3] Deibert was one of the founders and (former) VP of global policy and outreach for Psiphon.
Deibert has published numerous articles, chapters, and three books on issues related to technology, media, and world politics. He is the author of Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace,[4] published in May 2013. He was one of the authors of the report Tracking GhostNet: Investigating a Cyber Espionage Network[5] which documented an alleged cyber-espionage network affecting over 1,200 computers in 103 countries, and the Shadows in the Cloud: Investigating Cyber Espionage 2.0[6] report, which analyzed a cloud-based espionage network.
He has been a consultant and advisor to governments, international organizations, and civil society on issues relating to Internet censorship, surveillance and information warfare.[citation needed] He presently[when?] serves on the editorial board of the journals International Political Sociology, Security Dialogue, Explorations in Media Ecology, Review of Policy Research, and Astropolitics.[citation needed]
Deibert is on the advisory board of Accessnow.org,[7] Privacy International,[8] and is a member of the board of directors of Lake Ontario Waterkeeper.[9]
Deibert was awarded the University of Toronto Outstanding Teaching Award (2002),[10] the Northrop Frye Distinguished Teaching and Research Award (2002), and the Carolyn Tuohy Award for Public Policy[11] (2010). He was a Ford Foundation research scholar of information and communication technologies (2002-2004).[12]
He was named among Esquire Magazine’s Best and Brightest List of 2007,[13] and in 2010, he was listed among SC Magazine’s top “IT Security Luminaries.”[14]
In 2013, he was made a Member of the Order of Ontario[15] and awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, for being “among the first to recognize and take measures to mitigate growing threats to communications rights, openness and security worldwide.”[16]
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