Dmitry Epstein

Bio

Dmitry Epstein is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Communication & Journalism and the Federmann School of Public Policy & Governance at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is also an affiliate at the Federmann Cyber Security Research Center - Cyber Law Program. His research focuses on the intersection of information, technology, policy, and society examining how power operates in the governance of digital technologies. Specifically, he studies digital governance, privacy, cybersecurity and digital inequality.  Dmitry’s work has been supported by funders such as the National Science Foundation, Program on Economics & Privacy at George Mason University Law School, and the Internet Society. He has published in a number of venues such as The Information Society, Journal of Information Technology, Journal of Information Policy, Government Information Quarterly, Social Media + Society, and New Media & Society. Dmitry is the past Chair of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) and he is a co-founder of the Comparative Privacy Research Network (CPRN). Dmitry earned his PhD from Cornell University and prior to joining the Hebrew University, he was on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Personal site: www.thinkmacro.org