 Edward
Lucas
Edward Lucas is a senior editor at The Economist.
An expert in energy, intelligence, and cyber-security issues, he covered
Central and Eastern Europe for more than 20 years, witnessing the final
years of the last Cold War, the fall of the Iron Curtain and the collapse
of the Soviet empire, Boris Yeltsin’s downfall, and Vladimir Putin’s rise
to power. He is also a senior vice president at the
Center for European
Policy Analysis (CEPA).
From 1992 to 1994, Lucas was managing editor of The Baltic Independent,
a weekly newspaper published in Tallinn. He holds a BSc from the London
School of Economics, and studied Polish at the Jagiellonian University,
Cracow. He is married to
Cristina
Odone
and has three children.
The New Cold War (2008) was his first book.
Deception,
about east-west espionage, was published in 2011.
The Snowden Operation was published as an e-book in 2014. His latest
book is
Cyberphobia.
Reach Lucas at www.edwardlucas.com
or on Twitter @edwardlucas.
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Philip Howard
Philip N. Howard is a professor and writer. He has written
numerous empirical research articles, and published in a number of disciplines,
on the use of digital media for both civic engagement and social control
in countries around the world. He is a statutory
Professor of Internet Studies
at the
Oxford Internet Institute
and a Senior Fellow at
Balliol College
at the
University of Oxford. He has courtesy
appointments as a professor at the University of Washington’s
Department of Communication
and as a Fellow at Columbia University’s
Tow Center for Digital
Journalism
. He has held senior academic appointments at Stanford, Princeton,
and Columbia Universities, and from 2013-15 he helped design and launch
a new
School of Public Policy at
Central European University in Budapest.
Recently he received a Consolidator Award from the
European Research Council for his study of algorithms and public life.
His projects on digital activism, information access, and modern governance
in both democracies and authoritarian regimes have been supported by the
National Science Foundation,
US Institutes of Peace, and
Intel’s People
and Practices Group
.
He has published eight books and over 120 academic articles, book chapters,
conference papers, and commentary essays on information technology, international
affairs and public life. His research spans several disciplines, and he
is among a small number of scholars who have won awards from all three major
academic associations for his work in political science, sociology, and
communication. He is the author, most recently, of
Pax Technica: How the Internet of Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us Up
.
Howard’s research and commentary writing has been featured in the New
York Times, Washington Post, and many international media outlets. His B.A.
is in political science from
Innis College at
the University of Toronto, his M.Sc. is in economics from the
London School
of Economics
, and his Ph.D. is in sociology from
Northwestern
University
. His website is
philhoward.org, and
he tweets from
@pnhoward.
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 Michael
Gray
Dr. Michael Gray is Academic and Universities Director
at Harrow School. After graduating with a first class degree in History
from King’s College London, he taught at Halliford School, Shepperton and
St Edward’s School, Oxford. During this time he completed his Master’s in
Education and PhD in Holocaust education from the UCL Institute of Education.
He has published two books and several peer-reviewed articles on Holocaust
and genocide education, as well as speaking at international conferences
around the world.
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