Laura DeNardis, Ph.D., is the Inaugural Endowed Chair in Technology, Ethics, and Society at Georgetown University. Professor DeNardis is the Director of the Center for Digital Ethics and Professor in the department of Communication, Culture and Technology.
Professor DeNardis is recognized as a leading scholar of technology and society in both the United States and the world. Wired UK recently named her one of “32 Global Innovators Who are Building a Better Future ” and her book The Internet in Everything: Freedom and Security in a World with No Off Switch (Yale University Press) was recognized as a Financial Times Top Technology Book of 2020. Among her eight books, The Global War for Internet Governance (Yale University Press), is widely considered the definitive source for understanding power struggles over technical infrastructure. Some of her other books include Opening Standards: The Global Politics of Interoperability (MIT Press 2011); Protocol Politics: The Globalization of Internet Governance (MIT Press 2009); and Researching Internet Governance (MIT Press 2020).
DeNardis is a life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an affiliated Fellow of the Yale Information Society Project , where she previously served as Executive Director. DeNardis joined Georgetown from American University, where she served as Professor, Faculty Director of the Internet Governance Lab, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, and also Interim Dean of the School of Communication. In 2018 she received American University’s highest faculty honor, Scholar-Teacher of the Year. She previously served as the appointed Director of Research for the Global Commission on Internet Governance and an appointed member of the State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy.
Professor DeNardis holds an AB in Engineering Science from Dartmouth College, an MEng from Cornell University, a PhD in Science and Technology Studies from Virginia Tech, and was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from Yale Law School.