Robin Mansell

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Biography

Professor Robin Mansell (r.e.mansell@sussex.ac.uk) has a PhD (1984) in the economics of communication policy from Simon Fraser University in Canada.

She is currently Director of the Information, Networks & Knowledge (INK) research centre at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex (http://www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/ink ). She is responsible for the direction and management of INK's research programme and has teaching responsibilities in fields relating to technological innovation and policy.

Her current research interests focus on the globalisation and competitiveness of information and communication technology markets, the consumer acceptance of new technologies and services, the development of innovative business models, and developments in regulation and policy.

She is the author of more than 100 other books, academic papers and consultancy reports on the telecommunication and related industries. Her most recent publication, Knowledge Societies: Information Technology for Sustainable Development, was published in 1998 by Oxford University Press for the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development and is being translated into Chinese and Spanish, and French summaries.

Professor Mansell is a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, a member of the Advisory Board of the Swedish Transport and Communication Research Council (KFB); a founding member of the Board of Directors of the European Network for Communication and Information Perspectives, a European Economic Interest Group based in Montpellier; and a member of the UK Economic and Social Research Council's 'Invisible College' of advisors on Geography, Economics and Politics.