Laura DeNardis

Dr. Laura E. DeNardis (L.E.D) is a scholar of Internet architecture and governance and a tenured Professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She has held a number of leadership positions throughout her career including Executive Director of the Yale Information Society Project from 2008-2011, Interim Dean of the School of Communication at American University from 2019-2022, and Director of Research for the Global Commission on Internet Governance. Professor DeNardis was a Professor at American University from 2011-2011 and was the recipient of American University’s highest faculty honor - Scholar-Teacher of the Year - in 2018. She was elected to membership in the Cosmos Club in 2015 for distinction in the field. In 2020, Wired UK listed her as one of 32 Global Innovators Building a Better Future. DeNardis is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Her expertise and scholarship has been featured in Bloomberg, Science Magazine, The Economist, National Public Radio (NPR), New York Times, Newsweek, Time Magazine, Christian Science Monitor, Slate Magazine, Reuters, Forbes, the Washington Times, El Pais, La Repubblica, The Atlantic, and the Wall Street Journal.

With a background in information engineering and doctoral training in Science and Technology Studies, DeNardis is an expert adviser in Internet governance and architecture to Fortune 500 companies, foundations, and government agencies. DeNardis has more than twenty years of experience in strategic Internet architecture consulting. She previously served as an appointed member of the US State Department's Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy.

She is a co-founder and co-series editor of the MIT Press Information Society book series. She has previously taught at New York University, in the Volgenau School of Engineering at George Mason University, and at Yale Law School.

During the fast-paced Internet growth years of the 1990s, she was the President of Internet strategy consultancy Atlantic Consulting Group (Falls Church, VA) and previously worked as a computer networking management consultant for Ernst & Young's global information technology practice from 1989-1994.

Her seven books include The Internet in Everything: Freedom and Security in a World with No Off Switch (Yale University Press 2020), The Global War for Internet Governance (Yale University Press 2014), Opening Standards: The Global Politics of Interoperability (MIT Press 2011); Protocol Politics: The Globalization of Internet Governance (MIT Press 2009); Researching Internet Governance: Methods, Frameworks, Futures (MIT Press 2020), The Turn to Infrastructure in Internet Governance (Palgrave 2015) and Information Technology in Theory (2007).

Laura DeNardis holds an A.B. in Engineering Science from Dartmouth College; a Master of Engineering from Cornell University; a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from Virginia Tech (Phi Kappa Phi); and was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.

She resides in Washington, D.C.