Susan Crawford

Susan Crawford is a Professor at Cardozo Law School and an adjunct professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. She recently authored "Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age" (Yale 2013) and regularly contributes to Bloomberg View and Wired. Crawford is a Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, where she leads the Institute's work on making high-speed Internet access a universal, affordable resource for all. She is a member of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Advisory Council on Technology and Innovation and a former board member of ICANN.

Crawford has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Yale and the University of Michigan. As an academic, she teaches open government policy, Internet law and communications law. She was a member of the board of directors of ICANN from 2005-2008 and is the founder of OneWebDay, a global Earth Day for the Internet that takes place each September 22. Crawford has been named one of Fast Company's Most Influential Women in Technology (2009), as well as one of Prospect Magazine's Top Ten Brains of the Digital Future (2011). She was also listed on Newsweek's 2012 100 Digital Disruptors list. She serves on the boards of Public Knowledge and TPRC and as a faculty co-director of the Berkman Center at Harvard.

Ms. Crawford received her B.A. and J.D. from Yale University. She served as a clerk for Judge Raymond J. Dearie of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and was a partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (now WilmerHale) in Washington, D.C., until the end of 2002, when she left that firm to enter the legal academy. Susan lives in New York City.