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Philip Howard

ChairmanInternational Panel on the Information Environment

Biography

Phil Howard is a Professor at Balliol College, University of Oxford and Chair of the International Panel on the Information Environment. He is a global authority on technology innovation and public policy. He writes about information politics and international affairs, and is the author of ten books, including The Managed Citizen, Pax Technica, and Computational Propaganda. He has won multiple scientific prizes, and his commentary writing has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, and many international media outlets. He was named a “Global Thinker” by Foreign Policy magazine, and the National Democratic Institute awarded him their “Democracy Prize”, for pioneering the social science of fake news and misinformation. He has testified before the US Senate, UK Houses of Parliament, and European Commission on the impact of misinformation on human rights, media freedoms, and democratic values. His website is www.philhoward.org.