Stefaan Verhulst
Stefaan G. Verhulst is the Co-Founder and as of 2013 Chief Research and Development Officer of the Governance Laboratory at New York University. His latest research and writing considers how advances in technology and science can be harnessed to create effective and collaborative forms of governance.
In addition to GovLab, he holds several other academic and professional positions including the following:
- Senior Advisor to the Markle Foundation, a private non-profit organization committed to promoting the development of communications industries that address public needs, where he was Chief of Research for 11 years;
- Adjunct Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University;
- Senior Associated Fellow in the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at Oxford University which he co-founded several years ago;
- 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; and
- International Fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School;
- Fellow for the Center for Democracy & Technology;
- Advisor to Global Partners Digital.
- Expert on the Influencer Advisory Board of
- Board member for Obricom-UNESCO
He co-founded the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at Oxford University with Monroe Price. At Oxford, he was also the UNESCO Chairholder in Communications Law and Policy for the UK and the Socio-Legal research Fellow at Wolfson College. He has spoken at seminar.
Books and publications
Verhulst is the author and co-editor of several publications, including the following books, reports and chapters listed below. He is also the founder and editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Communications Law and Policy, and the Communications Law in Transition Newsletter and is a member of several editorial boards.- Verhulst and Price, Handbook of Media Law and Policy – A SocioLegal Exploration, Routledge, 2013
- Price, Monroe; Puppis, Manuel; Verhulst, Stefaan. "Media Policy and Governance." In Oxford Bibliographies in Communication. Ed. Patricia Moy. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
- Verhulst, Stefaan. "Net Neutrality and the Media" in Mapping Digital Media. Open Society Foundations Reference Series No. 7, London, United Kingdom: 2011
- Verhulst and Price, Comparative Media Law and Policy: Opportunities and Challenges. In: Thussu, Internationalizing Media Studies: Impediments and Imperatives, Routledge
- Verhulst, Linked Geographies: Maps as Mediators of Reality. In: Turow The Hyperlinked Society. Questioning Connections in The Digital Age. University of Michigan
- Verhulst, Emerging patterns of Broadcasting regulation. In: Buckley, Duer, Mendel, and O'Siochru, Broadcasting, Voice, and Accountability, A Public Interest Approach to Policy, Law, and Regulation, University of Michigan Press,
- Verhulst, Mediation, Mediators, and New Intermediaries. In: Napoli, Media Diversity and Localism: Meaning and Metrics. Laurence Erlbaum, 2006
- Verhulst, Digital Content Regulation. In: Lievrouw & Livingstone Handbook of New Media. Sage, 2005
- Verhulst and Price, Self-regulation and the Internet, Kluwer, 2005
- Verhulst and Sandvig, The Internet and public policy in comparative perspective. In M. Price & H. Nissenbaum, The Academy and the Internet. New York: Peter Lang, 2004.
- Verhulst and Price, Parental Control of Television Broadcasting, LEA, 2002
- Verhulst, Price and Rozumilowicz. Media Reform. Democratizing the media, democratizing the state. London; Routledge, 2001
- Verhulst, About Scarcities and Intermediaries. Reviewing the Regulatory Paradigm Shift. In: Livingstone and Lievrouw, Handbook of New Media. Sage, 2001
- Verhulst, Tambini, Forgan and Hall, Communications Revolution and Reform, IPPR, 2001
- Verhulst and Price, Conceptual Approaches to Self Regulation. In: Marsden, Regulating the Global Information Society. Routledge, 2000
- Verhulst, Holznagel, and Hahne, Verhinderung des Digital Divide als Zukunftsaufgabe. Ein Plädoyer gegen die Errichtung von E-Barriers. In: Kommunikation & Recht 2000, 425-431
- Verhulst and Price, Self Regulation. In: Jens Waltermann and Marcel Machill : Protecting our children on the Internet - Towards a new culture of responsibility, Gütersloh; Bertelsmann Foundation Publishers, 2000
- Verhulst and Marsden, Convergence in European Digital TV Regulation, Blackstone, 1999
- Verhulst, Goldberg, and Prosser, Legal Responses to the Changing Media. OUP, 1998
- Price and Verhulst, Broadcasting Reform in India. Oxford University Press, 1998
- Goldberg and Verhulst, European Media Policy: Complexity and Comprehensiveness. In: d'Haenens and Saeys, ed., Media Dynamics and Regulatory Concerns in the Digital Age. Quintessenz-Verlag, 1998
- Verhulst and Young, The Global Impact of Open Data. O'Reilly, 2016
Consultancies
- 10 Downing Street
- Aspen Institute
- Bertelsmann Foundation
- Broadcasting Standards Commission
- Council of Europe
- Digital Video Broadcasting Group
- European Commission
- European Research Institute of the Consumer Organizations
- Government of the United Kingdom – Department for International Development
- House of Commons of the United Kingdom
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
- Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
- UNESCO – Africa
- United States Agency for International Development
- World Bank