Isabel Hilton is a London-based journalist, broadcaster and the editor of China Dialogue, a bilingual website devoted to China and the environment. She was previously the editor of OpenDemocracy. She has been a staff writer at the Sunday Times, the Independent and the New Yorker. Her work has also appeared in the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Granta, the New Statesman, El Pais, and Index on Censorship among other venues. She has also been a presenter on the BBC's flagship news program, The World Tonight and a columnist for The Guardian. Since 2001 she has been a presenter on BBC Radio Three's cultural program Night Waves. She has reported from China, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Europe and has written and presented several BBC documentaries.

Rebecca MacKinnon is cofounder of Global Voices, a global citizen media network, and an assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong's Journalism and Media Studies Centre,  where she teaches online journalism and conducts research on the Internet, China, and censorship. As an Open Society Fellow, MacKinnon is writing a book, tentatively titled "Internet Freedom and Control: Lessons from China for the World."

At the Open Society Institute, MacKinnon is leading discussions on how China is using a combination of carrots and sticks to shape debate and silence dissent on the Internet.

Fluent in Mandarin, she was previously CNN bureau chief in Beijing and in Tokyo. She is also a founding member of the Global Network Initiative, which advances freedom of expression and privacy in the Internet and telecoms sectors. 

In 2007 and 2008, she was public lead for Creative Commons Hong Kong. She has previously been a fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where she focused on blogs and participatory online media in international news, and at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

She will be dividing her time between her home base in Hong Kong and the Open Society Institute offices in New York and London.

Read more about MacKinnon on her blog, RConversation.

Evgeny Morozov is an online media and digital activism expert from Belarus. He is writing a book on how the Internet influences civic engagement and regime stability in authoritarian and semi-authoritarian societies such as China, Egypt, Russia, and Venezuela. He is focusing on the unanticipated consequences of increased Internet usage, including nationalist activism and the dampening effects of new online social freedoms on political engagement.

Morozov has written on new media and technology for numerous publications, including the Economist, International Herald Tribune, Open Democracy, Le Monde, Newsweek, Slate, and Foreign Policy. He also blogs on the Foreign Policy website at Net.Effect.

He is currently a member of the OSI Information Program sub-board. He will be based at the Open Society Institute's New York office during the term of the fellowship.