Yochai Benkler

Yochai Benkler is the Berkman Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School, Faculty Director of the Program on Law and Political Economy at Harvard Law School, and Faculty Co-Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. He is the author, co-author, or editor of several books, including The Wealth of Networks, Network Propaganda, and The Political Economy of Justice. In the 1990s and 2000s, he played a central role in understanding information commons and decentralized collaboration to innovation, information production, and freedom in the networked economy and society. In 2012 he received a lifetime achievement award from the University of Oxford in recognition of his contribution to this field. In the 2010s, he produced leading work on network misinformation and propaganda. His work is socially engaged, winning him the Ford Foundation Visionaries Award in 2011, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award for 2007, and the Public Knowledge IP3 Award in 2006. Benkler has advised governments and international organizations on innovation policy and telecommunications, and served on the boards of several nonprofits working towards an open society.