Stuart N. Brotman is an American government policymaker; university professor; management consultant; lawyer; author and editorial adviser; and non-profit organization executive. He has taught students from 42 countries in six separate disciplines — Communications, Journalism, Business, Law, International Relations and Public Policy. He also has advised private and public sector clients in more than 30 countries in five continents. Biography Education After graduating with a BS degree, summa cum laude, from Northwestern University, Brotman received his MA in communications from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his JD from the University of California at Berkeley, where he served as note and comment editor of the California Law Review. He also completed advanced professional training in negotiation and mediation at Harvard Law School. Academic appointments and fellowships Brotman is the inaugural Howard Distinguished Endowed Professor of Media Management and Law and Beaman Professor of Journalism and Electronic Media at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. This interdisciplinary tenured position is the only one of its kind in the world. He has organized four semester-long graduate research seminars for the U.S. Department of State under the auspices of the University's Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, on big data and public diplomacy, social media and public diplomacy, global Internet freedom, and disinformation and storytelling. He also led a graduate student research team that served as Election Night social media analysts for Knoxville's CBS television affiliate, both in 2016 and 2018. Brotman serves on the Advisory Board of the Institute for Professional Leadership at the College of Law, as well. Brotman is an appointed Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in the 2019-20 academic year, focusing on digital privacy issues in its Science and Technology Innovation Program. He also is an honorary adjunct professor at the Jindal Global Law School in India, an affiliated researcher at the Media Management Transformation Centre of the Jönköping International Business School in Sweden, and a faculty member in the Chinese Executive Media Management Program at the University of Denver's Daniels College of Business. During the 2012-13 academic year, he served as the inaugural Professor of Communication in Residence at Northwestern University in Qatar, teaching and conducting research on media law, policy, and ethics; global broadband development; Internet governance; and digital entrepreneurship. He taught students both in the Media Industries and Technologies Program of the School of Communication and in the Journalism Program of the