Michael Kende is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Trade and Economic Integration and Visiting Lecturer at the Graduate Institute of Geneva, teaching a course on Internet Economics and Governance. Senior Advisor at Analysys Mason, a telecommunications and media consultancy. Member of Municipal Council in Collex-Bossy, Switzerland.
Former Chief Economist at the Internet Society. Previously partner in Analysys Mason and head of US office. Specialization in the economics of the Internet, with a particular focus on providing strategic advice on a wide variety of issues, including promoting Internet development and policy issues relating to the convergence of media and telecommunications. Ph.D. in Economics from MIT; Assistant Professor of Economics at INSEAD; and Senior Economist at the Federal Communications Commission.
Latest posts
Growing the Internet
31 August 2016
Content Infrastructure: The new bottleneck
While access to the Internet used to be the critical bottleneck in many emerging countries, the mobile Internet has...
Building Trust
13 January 2016
2016 World Development Report Shows Path To Internet of Opportunity For All
Today, the World Bank released its annual World Development Report (WDR), this year entitled Digital Dividends. As suggested in...
Internet Governance
18 November 2015
First Internet Society Discussion Paper on The Mobile App Divide
I am pleased to announce the creation of an Internet Society Discussion Paper Series, and to release its first...
Building Trust
24 February 2015
Postal Services: The Future of Digital Trust? – Interview on Privacy, Data Ethics, and More
Last September I was invited to speak at the Universal Postal Union’s Post-Expo in Stockholm, Sweden. For an IT...
Growing the Internet
12 January 2015
The Content Side of the Access Equation
As the infrastructure necessary for Internet access is becoming more available in developing countries, efforts to close the digital...
Community Projects
2 October 2014
SMART Rwanda Days: Boosting Local Content
The Internet Society is working with the Ministry of Youth and ICT in Rwanda on a study to help...