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Rebecca MacKinnon was the founding director of , a program that works to promote freedom of expression and privacy on the internet by creating global standards and incentives for companies to respect and protect users’ rights. RDR’s ranks the world’s most powerful internet, mobile, and telecommunications companies on relevant commitments and policies, based on international human rights standards. In the academic year 2019-2020, she is also a and a .

Author of (Basic Books, 2012) MacKinnon is co-founder of the citizen media network . She currently serves on the board of directors of the and was a founding member of the . Before launching the Ranking Digital Rights project, she was a senior research fellow (2012-2013) and Bernard L. Schwartz senior fellow (2010-2012) at ¹ú²úÊÓƵ. She is also a visiting affiliate at the Annenberg School for Communication’s Center for .

Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, MacKinnon was CNN’s Beijing Bureau Chief from 1998-2001 and Tokyo Bureau Chief from 2001-2003. Since leaving CNN in 2004, she has held fellowships at Harvard’s , the the , and Princeton’s . In 2007-08 she taught online journalism and conducted research on Chinese internet censorship at the University of Hong Kong’s , and was a 2013 adjunct lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She received her AB magna cum laude from Harvard University and was a Fulbright scholar in Taiwan.