Robin Mansell is Professor of New Media and the Internet in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK. She is internationally known for her work on the social, economic, and political issues arising with innovations in information and communication technologies. She was Head of the Media and Communications Department at LSE (2006-2009), President of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (2004-2008), and Scientific Chair of the EuroCPR conference on digital media, communication and regulatory policy (2008-2014). She is the author of Imagining the Internet: Communication, Innovation and Governance (2012), and co-editor of The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011) and The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies (2007).

Peng Hwa Ang is Professor at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research focuses on media law and policy and more specifically on Internet governance. He was a member of the UN Working Group on Internet Governance and author of Ordering Chaos: Regulating the Internet (2005). He co-founded the Global Internet Governance Academic Network and the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum and served as inaugural chair of both groups. He also served as Chairman of the Asian Information Media and Communication Centre (AMIC) from 2004-2013. He is the President Elect-Select of the ICA 2014-15.