Johnny Ryan

Johnny Ryan (1980- ) grew up in Dublin, Ireland, and was educated at University College Dublin and at the University of Cambridge, where he was an O'Reilly foundation scholar at Magdalene College.

He is Executive Director of The Innovation Academy at UCD, and an associate on the emerging digital environment at the Judge Business School of the University of Cambridge. Previously he was Chief Innovation Officer of The Irish Times.

His second book "A History of the Internet and the Digital Future" is on the reading list at Harvard, Stanford, and other top tier institutions. His PhD at the University of Cambridge examined how terrorist memes proliferate online. His previous research was the most cited source in the European Commission's official impact assessment that decided against pursuing an EU-wide system of Internet censorship, and he has written has appeared in Fortune, Contagious, BusinessWeek, NATO Review, Ars Technica, and The Irish Times. In an earlier existence he planned to be a 3D animator and worked as a designer.