Emily Taylor

Emily Taylor is an Associate Fellow of Chatham House and is Editor of the Journal of Cyber Policy. She is CEO of Oxford Information Labs. Emily’s research publications include The Internet in the Gulf (Chatham House); “ICANN: Bridging the Trust Gap” and “Privatisation of Human Rights” for the Global Commission; annual World Report on Internationalised Domain Names (lead author); studies for ICANN on the Domain Name Marketplace in Latin America and the Caribbean and the Middle East; and reports for the UK regulator, Ofcom, and a review of ICANN's policy development process. She is a member of ICANN’s independent Security and Stability Review Team, and chaired the independent WHOIS Review Team for ICANN. Emily served on the Internet Governance Forum’s Multistakeholder Advisory Group, and as part of the Global Commission on Internet Governance Research Network. From 2000-2009, she was at Nominet as Director of Legal and Policy. She has written for the Guardian, Ars Technica, and the New Statesman, and has appeared on the BBC Now Show.