User:Morar

I am a 2012-2015 Presidential Fellow and currently PhD student at George Mason University’s Schar School Of Policy and Government, as well as a Google Policy Fellow with the Internet Education Foundation, and an ICANN58 Fellow. I research Science and Technology Policy, nationally and internationally and I focus on Internet policy and governance issues (ICANN, encryption, IGF, Safe Harbor Privacy Shield, biometrics, Open Government initiatives, privacy, Big Data and ethics, etc.) as well as novel forms of governance. I’m mostly (but not entirely) a qualitative or mixed-methods type of guy. My main assignment is to assist Dr. Anne L. Washington with her (really cool) research and teaching activities. I was previously a Research Fellow with Future of Privacy Forum and a teaching assistant to former Under Secretary of the Navy, Dr. Janine Davidson.

I graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Political Science (in English) from The College of Political Science at the University of Bucharest in 2008, and in 2010 I graduated from the Master of International Affairs Program (with a Science, Technology and Society graduate minor) at The Pennsylvania State University. Between August 2011 and May 2012, I was a student in the Mass Communications Doctorate at Penn State’s College of Communications. (As a side note, while there, starting in September 2011 I became Social Media Manager for Onward State, the largest Penn State student-centric blog platform.)

I am a member of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, the American Political Science Association and the International Association of Privacy Professionals. I was selected as a 2016 Global Privacy Summit Scholar by IAPP. Having started my two-year appointment in January 2016, I am a Student Representative on APPAM’s Policy Council, thus building on my involvement from 2015, when I was the inaugural Chair of APPAM’s Student Advisory Committee. I was a finalist for the 2016 Mason Law and Economics Center’s prestigious Privacy Fellowship program.

I have volunteered at and assisted with numerous events and conferences, such as National Science Foundation workshops, professional conferences, or the 2015 Privacy and Security Forum, to name just a few. For several years I was involved, at levels ranging from volunteer to Vice-Chair, with the premier graduate student-focused science and technology studies and policy conference, STGlobal. I have presented co-authored or single authored papers at US and international conferences. Over summer 2009, I Interned at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies.