Giorgos Cheliotis

Research workshop on Free Culture

Giorgos Cheliotis is an Assistant Professor of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore. Before that he was a visiting professor at the School of Information Systems of Singapore Management University, a researcher with IBM Research and a management consultant with McKinsey and Company in Switzerland.

Giorgos is known for his older work on bandwidth trading and Grid economics as well as his more recent investigations into new communication, licensing and business models for digital media, especially in the context of online communities and social networks. Giorgos has initiated and is leading the CC-Monitor project, a collaboration between the Schools of Law and Information Systems of Singapore Management University and the Creative Commons headquarters in San Francisco. He is an associate fellow of the Center for Asia Pacific Technology Law and Policy (CAPTEL) at Nanyang Technological University, a leading member of Creative Commons Singapore and a member of the ACM, INFORMS and ISAST. Giorgos is also editor of the International Journal on Communications Law and Policy and chair of Free Culture 2008, the first interdisciplinary research workshop on free culture.