Dr Ian Brown is Senior Fellow with Research ICT Africa in Cape Town, carrying out research into cybersecurity, data protection, and human rights policy in Africa. He was previously the Principal Scientist for the UK Government’s Department for Digital, Media, Culture and Sport; and before that Professor of Information Security and Privacy at the University of Oxford. He wrote Regulating Code (MIT Press, 2013, with Chris Marsden) and edited the Research Handbook on Governance of the Internet (Elgar, 2013). He is an ACM Distinguished Scientist, and British Computer Society Chartered Fellow and Society Board member.