Ronald J. Deibert (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.) is associate professor of political science at the University of Toronto, specializing in media, technology, and world politics, and a Ford Foundation Research Scholar of Information and Communicaton Technologies (2002-2004). He is the author of the book Parchment, Printing, and Hypermedia: Communications in World Order Transformation (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997). He is also the director of the Citizen Lab, based at the University of Toronto (http://www.citizenlab.org/). The Citizen Lab sponsors research at the intersection of digital media and world civic politics.

He has published articles on topics relating to Internet politics, civil society and global politics, earth remote sensing and space policy, and social science epistemology in the journals International Organization, The Review of International Studies, Journal of Social Issues, International Studies Perspectives, Intelligence and National Security, and The European Journal of International Relations. He currently serves on the editorial board of the journals International Studies Perspectives, Astropolitics, The Journal of Environmental Peace, and Explorations in Media Ecology.

Professor Deibert is presently finishing a book manuscript on the politics of Internet security, entitled Code Wars: Internet Security and Global Civic Networks. He is presently doing research on the Internet security and citizen networks.

He has been a consultant to the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Human Rights in China, and the Canadian Department of National Defence on issues relating to the Internet, space technology, arms control, and international relations. He is a frequent guest on television and radio shows, including CBC, CTV, Fox News, and TVO. At the University of Toronto, Professor Deibert has employed extensive use of new media technology in courses that he teaches (http://pol108.net/). He served on the University of Toronto Provost’s Task Force on Academic Computing and New Media in 2000. He was awarded the University of Toronto Outstanding Teaching Award (2002) and the Northrop Frye Distinguished Teaching and Research Award (2002).

Along with filmaker Mike Downie, Professor Deibert has co-produced the television documentary series, “Activist TV,” “Into America” and "Hacktivista," all of which were broadcast by TVOntario.