AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES
Samantha Bradshaw is a doctoral candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of
Oxford, a researcher on the Computational Propaganda project, and a Senior Fellow at the
Canadian International Council. Prior to joining the team, she worked at the Centre for
International Governance Innovation in Waterloo, Canada, where she was a key member of a
small team facilitating the Global Commission on Internet Governance. Samantha’s research
has been featured in numerous media articles, including the Washington Post, the Financial
Times and CNN. Samantha holds an MA in global governance from the Balsillie School of
International Affairs, and a joint honors BA in political science and legal studies from the
University of Waterloo.
Philip N. Howard is Director of the Oxford Internet Institute, and a statutory Professor at Balliol
College, Oxford. He writes about information politics and international affairs, and is the author
of eight books, including The Managed Citizen, the Digital Origins of Dictatorship and
Democracy, and Pax Technica: How the Internet of Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us Up. He
has won multiple “best book” awards, and his research and commentary writing has been
featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, and many international media outlets.
Foreign Policy magazine named him a “Global Thinker” for 2017 and the National Democratic
Institute awarded him their “Democracy Prize” for pioneering the social science of fake news.
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