Dr. Milton L. Mueller is Professor of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, USA). He directs GT’s Master of Science program in Cybersecurity Policy. An internationally prominent scholar specializing in the political economy of information and communication, he is the author of seven books and many journal articles, including Will the Internet Fragment? Sovereignty, Globalization and Cyberspace (Polity, 2017), Networks and States: The global politics of Internet governance (MIT Press, 2010) and Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace (MIT Press, 2002). His work informs public policy, science and technology studies, law, economics, communications, and international studies. Mueller received the PhD from the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School of Communications in 1989.
Bridging scholarship and practice, Dr. Mueller co-founded and directs of Georgia Tech’s Internet Governance Project (IGP), which has played a prominent role in shaping ICANN, the UN Internet Governance Forum, and other Internet policies and institutions. He co-founded ICANN’s Noncommercial Users Constituency and served on the Advisory Committee of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN). He also served on the IANA Stewardship Coordination Group during the IANA transition.