The Future of Freedom and Control in the Internet Age

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 a journalist and activist whose work focuses on the intersection of the Internet, human rights, and foreign policy. As an Open Society Fellow, she conducted research for her first book, Consent of the Networked, which will be published in January 2012 by Basic Books.

Currently a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, MacKinnon is examining U.S. policies related to the Internet, human rights, and "global Internet freedom." She is cofounder of Global Voices Online, a global citizen media network, and is also a founding member of the Global Network Initiative, a multi-stakeholder initiative to advance principles of freedom of expression and privacy in the information and communications technology sector.

Fluent in Mandarin, MacKinnon served as CNN’s Beijing bureau chief and correspondent from 1998-2001 and then as CNN’s Tokyo bureau chief and correspondent from 2001-03. She has been a fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, both at Harvard; in addition, she taught online journalism and conducted research on Chinese Internet censorship at the University of Hong Kong's Journalism and Media Studies Centre.

MacKinnon received her bachelor's degree magna cum laude from Harvard College.

Evgeny Morozov is an online media and digital activism expert from Belarus. As an Open Society Fellow, he worked on The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom, his critically acclaimed book published in January 2011. In it, Morozov punctures popular myths about the power of the internet to undermine authoritarian regimes. 

Currently a visiting scholar at Stanford University, Morozov was formerly a Yahoo! fellow at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University and has served as director of new media at Transitions Online, a Prague-based media-development organization. His writing has appeared in the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Newsweek, the Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune, Slate, Le Monde, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Review, Foreign Policy, Project Syndicate, Dissent, and many other publications.