Ronald Deibert

Ronald Deibert "is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs. The Citizen Lab—whose discovery of GhostNet, a cyberspy network, became international news—is an interdisciplinary research and development hothouse working at the intersection of the Internet, global security, and human rights. He is a co-founder and a principal investigator of the OpenNet Initiative, a research and advocacy project that examines Internet censorship and surveillance worldwide, The Information Warfare Monitor, and a co-founder and director of global policy and outreach for the psiphon censorship circumvention software project.

"Professor Deibert has been a consultant and advisor to human rights and humanitarian civil society groups and government organizations on issues relating to Internet censorship, surveillance, and information warfare. He was named to the Macleans magazine honour roll as one of 39 Canadians to have helped make the world a better place in 2006, and to Esquire Magazine’s Best and Brightest list of 2007. Psiphon was awarded the 2008 Netxplorateur of the Year Grand Prix and the 2009 Economist New Media Award at the Index on Censorship Press Freedom Awards."


 * Faculty, Munk School of Global Affairs