Meryem Marzouki is a senior researcher with the French National Scientific Research Center (CNRS), currently with the Computer Science Laboratory of Paris 6 (LIP6). She holds a PhD (1991) in Computer Science and an ‘Habilitation à diriger des recherches’ (1998), both from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble, France. In 2002, she started PolyTIC, a multi-disciplinary research activity, dealing with relationships between ICTs, public policies and the public space. Her current research interests include Internet governance and the transformation of the rule of law, privacy and personal data protection issues, and usages in mobile and broadband communications. Besides French academic networks membership, Meryem Marzouki is a member of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) and of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). As 2008 GigaNet program committee chair, she started the GigaNet Annual Workshop on ‘Global Internet Governance: An Interdisciplinary Research Field in Construction’, which she chairs since 2008, and organized and chaired the 3rd GigaNet Annual Symposium in Hyderabad (India) in December 2008.

Since 1996, Meryem Marzouki has also been actively promoting human rights in the information society. She co-chaired the UN WSIS Civil Society Human Rights Caucus as president of the French NGO IRIS. She served as president of the European Digital Rights (EDRI) association, representing it, most recently, at the Council of Europe Group of Specialists on Human Rights in the Information Society, and at the OECD Ministerial Conference on the Future of the Internet Economy. She received in 2008 the 10th Austrian Big Brother Awards ‘Defensor Libertatis’ prize, as a cosmopolitan pioneer of citizen digital rights defense.

Meryem Marzouki’s publications and talks on Internet governance, human rights and democracy are available at: www-polytic.lip6.fr.