Government, Private/Public Partnerships, Data Policy
Stefaan Verhulst
Co-founder, Chief Research & Development Officer, Policy Advisor & Consultant
Stefaan has been exploring the intersection of technology, innovation and governance for over more than two decades.
He is the Co-Founder of the Governance Laboratory (The GovLab) at New York University (NYU), an action research centre focused on improving decision-making using advances in science and technology — including data and collective intelligence.
He is also, among other positions and affiliations, the Editor-in-Chief of Data & Policy, an open-access journal by Cambridge University Press; the Research Director of the MacArthur Research Network on Opening Governance; Chair of the Data for Children Collaborative with Unicef; a member of the High-Level Expert Group to the European Commission on Business-to-Government Data Sharing; and of the Expert Group to Eurostat on using private sector data for official statistics.
He was recognized as one of the 10 Most Influential Academics in Digital Government globally (as part of the Top 100 in Digital Government) by the global policy platform Apolitical, in 2018.
His research considers how advances in technology and science can be harnessed to create effective and collaborative forms of governance.
Other positions held include: Fellow at The Center for Democracy & Technology; Adjunct Professor at NYU; Senior Associate Fellow in the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at Oxford University (which he co-founded); Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Global Communication Studies, Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania; Senior Research Fellow for the Center for Media and Communications Studies Central European University in Budapest; International Fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School; Board Member of ORBICOM - the network of UNESCO Chair-holders; Advisor to Global Partners Digital.
He held the UNESCO Chair in Communications Law and Policy for the UK and consulted to the Aspen Institute, World Economic Forum, Council of Europe, the European Commission, UNESCO, World Bank, UNDP, USAID, ICANN,the UK Department for International Development.
Verhulst has authored and co-authored 9 books, reports and was founder and editor of numerous journals including the Govlab Weekly Digest. He blogs at Medium as @sverhulst.
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Stefaan has been exploring the intersection of technology, innovation and governance for over more than two decades.
He is the Co-Founder of the Governance Laboratory (The GovLab) at New York University (NYU), an action research centre focused on improving decision-making using advances in science and technology — including data and collective intelligence.
He is also, among other positions and affiliations, the Editor-in-Chief of Data & Policy, an open-access journal by Cambridge University Press; the Research Director of the MacArthur Research Network on Opening Governance; Chair of the Data for Children Collaborative with Unicef; a member of the High-Level Expert Group to the European Commission on Business-to-Government Data Sharing; and of the Expert Group to Eurostat on using private sector data for official statistics.
He was recognized as one of the 10 Most Influential Academics in Digital Government globally (as part of the Top 100 in Digital Government) by the global policy platform Apolitical, in 2018.
His research considers how advances in technology and science can be harnessed to create effective and collaborative forms of governance.
Other positions held include: Fellow at The Center for Democracy & Technology; Adjunct Professor at NYU; Senior Associate Fellow in the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at Oxford University (which he co-founded); Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Global Communication Studies, Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania; Senior Research Fellow for the Center for Media and Communications Studies Central European University in Budapest; International Fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School; Board Member of ORBICOM - the network of UNESCO Chair-holders; Advisor to Global Partners Digital.
He held the UNESCO Chair in Communications Law and Policy for the UK and consulted to the Aspen Institute, World Economic Forum, Council of Europe, the European Commission, UNESCO, World Bank, UNDP, USAID, ICANN,the UK Department for International Development.
Verhulst has authored and co-authored 9 books, reports and was founder and editor of numerous journals including the Govlab Weekly Digest. He blogs at Medium as @sverhulst.
