Rebecca MacKinnon is a 2009 Open Society Fellow, writing a book tentatively titled Internet Freedom and Control: Lessons from China for the World. She is currently on leave from the University of Hong Kong's Journalism and Media Studies Centre, where she teaches online journalism and conducts research on the Internet, China, and censorship. She blogs frequently about her ideas and work at: http://rconversation.blogs.com.

In 2004 MacKinnon co-founded Global Voices Online, an international citizen media network. She is a founding member of the Global Network Initiative, a global corporate code of conduct for free expression and privacy. In 2007-08 she also served as Public Lead for Creative Commons Hong Kong.

Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, MacKinnon worked for CNN in Northeast Asia for over a decade, serving as CNN's Beijing Bureau Chief and Correspondent from 1998-2001 and as CNN's Tokyo Bureau Chief and Correspondent from 2001-03. She has also covered major news events in North and South Korea, Pakistan and the Philippines. After leaving CNN in 2004 she spent three years as a research fellow at Harvard, first at the Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center on Press and Public Policy and then at the Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

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