Biography

Madeleine de Cock Buning is part-time Professor Digital Politics, Economy and Societies at the School of Transnational Governance (STG) since June 2018. In this role she is chair of the advisory board of the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO), an STG-led project about online disinformation funded by the European Commission. Madeleine is furthermore appointed professor at the Faculty of Law, Economy and Governance (UU) with a chair in Copyright Law and Media and Communication Law and Vice President Public Policy EMEA at Netflix.

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. 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 as well as chair of the Advisory Committee on Copyright to the Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice.

She was an Honorary Judge of the Court of Appeal in The Hague and was panelist of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

Research projects, clusters and working groups

Ongoing

• European Digital Media Observatory

Completed

• Digital trade integration - dataset & index

Fields of expertise

Recent research output

• BERTUZZI, Luca; ENGLER, Alex; KUKLIŠ, Ľuboš; WACHTER, Sandra (2023), Europe's digital future : the opportunities and pitfalls of platform self-regulation of harmful content and disinformation, Video
• GASSER, Urs; POIARES PESSOA MADURO, Luis Miguel; WATCHER, Sandra (2021), Deployment : fundamental rights and biases in AI, Video
• BÖSL, Dominik; BRYSON, Joanna; GABRIEL, Mariya; RENDA, Andrea; WYCKOFF, Andrew (2021), Development : competitive innovation in human centric AI, Video
• DE COCK BUNING, Madeleine; GABRIEL, Mariya (2021), Promises and challenges of artificial intelligence post COVID-19 : [conversation between Madeleine de Cock Buning and Mariya Gabriel], Video
• BARROSO, José Manuel Durão; JOUROVÁ, Vĕra; EL RAMLY, Siada; TURNBULL, Malcolm; NGUYEN, Aurélia; DELSAUX, Pierre; SHALIGRAM, Umesh; REES, Helen; PANUCCI, Marcella; LISK, Franklyn; LAPPI, Timo; WILLIAMS, Michelle A.; YEO, George (2021), European COVID summit : information, vaccination, and the transformation of work, Other
• DE COCK BUNING, Madeleine (2018), A multi-dimensional approach to disinformation : report of the independent High level Group on fake news and online disinformation, Book