National University of Singapore

Faculty Member, Communications and New Media

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Giorgos Cheliotis is Assistant Professor of Communications and New Media at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is currently also a visiting researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Before joining NUS, Giorgos was a visiting professor at the School of Information Systems of Singapore Management University, a management consultant with McKinsey & Company and with a new media startup in Switzerland, and a post-doctoral researcher with IBM Research at the Zurich Research Laboratory, where he also worked as a doctoral student, earning a PhD in Telecommunications and Information Systems from his home institution, the National Technical University of Athens. Giorgos has initiated and is leading the CC-Monitor project in collaboration with Creative Commons and with support from the Social Science Research Council and the Ford Foundation. He is an associate fellow of the Center for Asia Pacific Technology Law and Policy (CAPTEL) at Nanyang Technological University and the public lead of Creative Commons Singapore. Giorgos is also editor of the International Journal of Communications Law and Policy and founder of the Free Culture research conference, an annual interdisciplinary event promoting academic dialogue on issues of freedom, sharing and control on the Internet. His work has appeared in several refereed journals, books and international conference proceedings, while he is a frequent speaker on open licensing and new media trends, in public events, on television and in the popular press.

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