International Advisory Group

• Professor Bruce Bimber, Departments of Political Science & Communication, Director Emeritus, Center for Information Technology and Society, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States.
• Professor Stephen Coleman, Professor of Political Communication, Institute for Communication Studies, University of Leeds, United Kingdom.
• Professor Maura Conway,  Department of Law and Government, Dublin City University, Republic of Ireland.
• Dr Sophie Duchesne, Senior Research Fellow, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France.
• Adam Dustagheer, Digital Communications Manager, Confederation of British Industry (formerly Head of New Media, the Labour Party).
• Professor William H. Dutton, Quello Professor of Media and Information Policy and Director of the Quello Centre, Michigan State University.
• Dr Mary Francoli, Department of Communication, Carleton University, Canada.
• Professor Rachel K. Gibson, Professor of Political Science, Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research, University of Manchester.
• Professor Marie Gillespie, Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change, The Open University, United Kingdom.
• Professor Philip N. Howard, Professor, Department of Communication, University of Washington, United States.
• Mr Jimmy Leach, Consultant: Digital Communications and Engagement at ICANN.
• Professor Miriam Lips, Chair in E-Government, School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
• Professor Piers Robinson, Senior Lecturer, Department of Journalism Studies, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom.
• Professor Kenneth S. Rogerson, Research Director, DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy at the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University, United States.
• Professor Philip M. Seib, Professor of Journalism and Public Diplomacy, Professor of International Relations, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, United States.
• Dr Stuart Shulman, Founder and CEO of Texifter, United States.
• Professor Howard Tumber, Professor of Journalism, Co-Director of the Centre for Law, Justice & Journalism, City University, United Kingdom.
• Dr Thomas Zittel, Professor for Comparative Politics, Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Goethe-University of Frankfurt, Germany.