Alison Harcourt, Professor of Public Policy, University of Exeter,George Christou, Professor of European Politics and Security, University of Warwick,Seamus Simpson, Professor of Media Policy, University of Salford

Alison Harcourt is Professor of Public Policy at the Department of Politics at the University of Exeter. She is also Director of the Centre for European Governance. Alison specialises regulatory change in digital markets and interested in solutions to regulatory problems based around the citizen/consumer and/or civil society voice. She has written on the regulation of traditional and new media markets and internet governance at EU and international levels contributing to the literature on agenda setting, regulatory competition, soft governance, Europeanisation and policy convergence.


George Christou is Professor of European Politics and Security at the Department for Politics and International Studies. His main research interests include the EU's role in conflict resolution, with specific interest in Cyprus and Turkey; European Neighbourhood Policy; the EU as an actor in Internet Governance and the political economy of European and Global Internet Governance; and the EU's Cyber Security Policy/The Politics and Governance of International Cybersecurity.


Seamus Simpson is Professor of Media Policy in the School of Arts and Media at the University of Salford. He has written extensively on European and global communications policy matters and his work has been funded by the ESRC and the European Commission. He is a past Chair of the International Communication Association (ICA), Communication Law and Policy Division and Board of Directors member of the ICA. He is currently Senior Editor at the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication (OUP) and Academic Management Committee member of the AHRC North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership.