Madeleine de Cock Buning

Madeleine de Cock Buning is a Professor in the Digital Politics, Economies and Societies Cluster at the European University Institute’s School of Transnational Governance. Professor de Cock Buning was Chair of the European Commission’s High-Level Expert Group (HLEG) on fake news and disinformation, assigned to provide the commission with options on how to react to the dissemination of fake news both online and offline. She is also an appointed professor at the Faculty of Law, Economy and Governance, Utrecht University, with a chair in Copyright Law and Media and Communication Law, and chair of the Advisory Committee on Copyright to the Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice. In addition to her other experience, Professor de Cock Buning was Chair of the European Regulators Group for Audiovisual Media Services (ERGA) and was President of the Board of Commissioners at the Dutch Media Authority. She is an Honorary Judge of the Court of Appeal in The Hague and was a panellist of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).