William H. Dutton is Co-President of the Portulans Institute and leads research on policies and practices on freedom of information. Bill was the first professor of Internet studies at the University of Oxford and founding director of the Oxford Internet Institute.
Gianna Sagazio is Co-President of Portulans Institute and CEO of Sosa (Brazil). She is the former Director of Innovation of the National Confederation of Industry Brazil (CNI), responsible for the executive coordination of the Entrepreneurial Mobilization for Innovation (MEI).
Rafael Escalona Reynoso serves as the Director and CEO of Portulans Institute. In this role, he leads the production of the Network Readiness Index (NRI) and the Global Talent and Competitiveness Index (GTCI), both of which he serves as co-editor. He also coordinates numerous high-profile regional projects focused on technology, innovation, and human capital development.
Soumitra Dutta is the Co-Founder of Portulans Institute.
Bruno Lanvin is the Co-founder of Portulans Institute and President of the Smart City Observatory.
Carolina Rossini is a Co-Founder of Portulans Institute and served as founding Secretary for the Board and CEO from 2019 to 2021 before taking the role of Senior Advisor.
James Poisant is a Senior Advisor and former Secretary-General of the World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA).
Karolina Mackiewicz is the Director of Policy and Engagement. In her role, she is in charge of monitoring relevant national and international policy developments, and coordinating long-term research projects, communications, and administrative work across key focus areas.
Sylvie Antal is a Policy Research and Communications Associate supporting research and strategic communications on digital transformation and ICT policy.
Shailja Bang Shah is the Head of Research responsible for project management, policy analysis, and communications support pertaining to regional projects.
Lisa Chernenko is a DPhil candidate in Social Data Science at the Oxford Internet Institute, Associate Researcher and a Project Lead in the Portulans Institute, where she works as part of the Ukraine Case Studies team.
Margaret van Wassenaer serves as the Project Manager and Researcher for the Portulans Democracy Project, where she contributes to research on democratic innovation, institutional resilience, and the role of emerging technologies in shaping governance worldwide.
Ana Luisa serves as the Postdoctoral Researcher for the Portulans Democracy Project. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Humboldt University of Berlin, specializing in participatory and digital democracy.
Marcel Stolz earned his DPhil (PhD) in cybersecurity from the University of Oxford. He has worked on national policy recommendations with Oxford’s Global Cybersecurity Capacity Centre (GCSCC) and as a short-term consultant for the World Bank Group.
Aras Coskuntuncel is a researcher and instructor who completed his Ph.D. at American University in communication, studying the struggle to control the flow of information in the digital era in the case of Turkey
Grant Blank is a sociologist specializing in the social and cultural impact of the Internet, the digital divide, statistical and qualitative methods, and cultural sociology. He was the Survey Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute and Senior Research Fellow of Harris Manchester College.
Mona is PwC Middle East Chief People Officer and a member of the leadership team, responsible for formulating and delivering the firm’s people strategy.
Dr. Hessa was the former and the first-ever Minister of Information and Communication Technology in Qatar.
Dr. Jacques Bughin is the CEO of Machaon Advisory, and was a former Director in McKinsey’s Brussels office.
Karim is the Managing Director of Space42, the new AI-powered space technology champion with global reach.
Diego Molano Vega is the former Minister of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) of Colombia from 2010 to 2015.
Lynn St.Amour is President and CEO of Internet Matters, an Internet consulting company, and is active in matters of Internet development and governance.
Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås is a Senior Associate with the Council on Economic Policies.
Chris Ferguson is the Managing Director of Scott Logic and a former senior management member of the UK’s Government Digital Service in the UK’s Cabinet Office.
John Garrity is Chief of Party for USAID Better Access and Connectivity (BEACON) a USD 33m program to improve digital connectivity infrastructure, the ICT enabling environment, and cybersecurity capacity in the Philippines.
Michaela Saisana is the head of the Monitoring, Indicators and Impact Evaluation Unit at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Italy.
Professor G. ‘Anand’ Anandalingam is the Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Management Science at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.
Alicia García Herrero is Adjunct Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science.
Abhijith Anand is a Professor of Information Systems at the Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas. His research focuses on how emerging technologies such as analytics and artificial intelligence create value for organizations and society.
Raymond Onuoha is currently an AfOx Fellow at the University of Oxford and a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), South Africa where he is assessing high-integrity and trust identification schemes across Africa.
Courtney Bower is a Ph.D. Candidate in Regional Science at Cornell University. His research focuses on the economic impacts of transitions to circular and hydrogen economies from a regional innovation systems perspective.
Utkarsh Amitabh is the CEO of Network Capital and the Chief Marketing Officer of 5ire.org.
Renard Siew is a sustainability and climate change specialist. He serves as the Climate Advisor for CENT-GPS where he is responsible for advancing his organisation’s work in the field of climate change and sustainability.
Latisha Harry is an independent consultant who works with a range of organizations on projects at the intersection of technology and society.
Marine Ragnet is a senior international affairs expert specializing in the intersection of emerging technologies, international affairs, and governance.
Elizabeth is a Project Manager and Research Assistant managing day-to-day coordination between Portulans and INSEAD for the Global Talent Competitiveness Index (GTCI). She also supports research on societal resilience by conducting literature reviews and helping to develop models for the GTCI 2025 report.
Daniel Weinstein is a DC Fellow at the Portulans Institute, as well as a Research Fellow at the CCIA. He supports research on AI, innovation, and global competitiveness, and notably assists with the Portulans Institute’s Network Readiness Index (NRI).
Kunjika Pathak is a strategic communicator and researcher working at the intersection of technology, policy and storytelling.
Michelle Vanassche is a Doctoral Researcher at Vlerick Business School in Belgium. She focuses on the structure and evolution of digital businesses and applications.
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