Ron Deibert (PhD, University of British Columbia) is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto. The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary research and development hothouse working at the intersection of the Internet, global security, and human rights. He is a co-founder and a principal investigator of the OpenNet Initiative, research and advocacy project that examines Internet censorship and surveillance worldwide, The Information Warfare Monitor, a co-founder and director of global policy and outreach for Psiphon Inc. and a principal of SecDev.cyber. Deibert has published numerous articles, chapters, and two books on issues related technology, media, and world politics

He has been a consultant and advisor to human rights and humanitarian civil society groups and government organizations on issues relating to Internet censorship, surveillance and information warfare. He presently serves on the editorial board of the journals International Political Sociology, Explorations in Media Ecology, and Astropolitics, the advisory board of The SecDev Group, The Watston Institute for International Studies InfoWarTechPeace project (Brown University), and is a member of the board of directors of Lake Ontario Waterkeeper.

Ron's research has been featured in newspapers, television, and radio shows, including the New York Times, BBC, Globe and Mail, CBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, WIRED, and the Far Eastern Economic Review. He was awarded the University of Toronto Outstanding Teaching Award (2002) and the Northrop Frye Distinguished Teaching and Research Award (2002), and was a Ford Foundation research scholar of Information and communication technologies (2002-2004). He was named to the Macleans magazine honour roll as one of 39 Canadians to have helped make the world a better place in 2006, and to Esquire Magazine's Best and Brightest list of 2007.

Ron even has his own Wikipedia page.