Dr Roxana Radu

Internet Governance specialist

About Roxana

Dr Roxana Radu is an Associate Professor of Digital Technologies and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. Her research focuses on Internet and AI governance and related policymaking. She is the author of the monograph 'Negotiating Internet Governance' (Oxford University Press, 2019), inspired by her work with the diplomatic community in Geneva, Switzerland. She often advises governments and international organisations on digital governance issues and formerly served on the Advisory Group of the EU Cybersecurity Agency. Between 2023-2025, she was the elected Chair of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet).Roxana holds a PhD (summa cum laude) in International Relations from the Geneva Graduate Institute and an MA (honours) in Political Science from the Central European University.

Selected publications

TitlePublisherYear
Cognitive frontiers: neurotechnology and global internet governanceFrontiers in Digital Health2025
Internet governance and global digital constitutionalism:framing the Global Digital Compact Oxford Handbook of Digital Constitutionalism2025
Countering ransomware: government responses in a comparative perspectiveCyCon, NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence2025
Responding to ransomware within the boundaries on international lawCyCon, NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence2025
New challenges in Internet governance: power shifts and contestation from "within" Telecommunications Policy2024
DNS4EU: a step change in the EU's strategic autonomy?Journal of Cyber Policy2024
Digital footprints as barriers for accessing e-government servicesGlobal Policy2023
Digital constitutionalism in the new era of Internet governanceInternational Journal of Law and Information Technology2022
The governance of 5G infrastructure: between path dependency and risk-based approachesJournal of Cybersecurity2021
Normfare: Norm Entrepreneurship in Internet GovernanceTelecommunications Policy2021
Steering the Governance of Artificial Intelligence: National Strategies in PerspectivePolicy & Society2021
Consolidation in the DNS Resolver Market - How Much, How Fast, How Dangerous?Journal of Cyber Policy2020
Fighting the "Infodemic": Legal Responses to COVID-19 DisinformationSocial Media and Society2020
Negotiating Internet GovernanceOxford University Press2019
The “Right to Be Forgotten”: Negotiating Public and Private Ordering in the European UnionBusiness & Society2017
Crowdsourcing as an Emerging Form of Multistakeholder Participation in Internet GovernancePolicy & Internet2015
Policy briefsPublisherYear
Neurotechnologies and Internet governanceEUI Florence: Global Initiative on the Future of the Internet2024
Securing and enabling democratic ecosystems through AI (with A. Dwyer)IE Madrid: CGC2024
G20 and global AI governanceIE Madrid: CGC2024
The variable geometry of AI governanceGeneva Policy Outlook2024