Rate My Professor Milton Mueller

Milton L. Mueller is a Professor in the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he also serves as Program Director for the Masters of Science in Cybersecurity Policy. He earned a Ph.D. in 1989 and an M.A. in 1986 from the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania. Mueller is an internationally prominent scholar specializing in the political economy of information and communication technologies. His research interests encompass cybersecurity public policy, Internet and AI governance, telecommunications and Internet policy, digital political economy, digital media, cybernetics, and global trade in the digital ecosystem. As co-founder and director of the Internet Governance Project since 2004, he has shaped global Internet policies and institutions including ICANN and the Internet Governance Forum. He led the creation of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network, an international scholarly association. Mueller has participated in policy proceedings for ICANN, the International Telecommunications Union, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, and regulators in the European Commission, China, Hong Kong, and New Zealand. He served as an expert witness in legal cases on domain names and telecommunication policy, was elected to the Advisory Committee of the American Registry for Internet Numbers from 2013 to 2016, and appointed to the IANA Stewardship Coordination Group in 2014.

Mueller's influential publications include books such as Declaring Independence in Cyberspace: Internet Self-Governance and the End of US Control of ICANN (2025), Will the Internet Fragment? Sovereignty, Globalization and Cyberspace (2017), Networks and States: The Global Politics of Internet Governance (2010), and Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace (2002). Other notable works are Telecom Policy and Digital Convergence (1997), Universal Service: Interconnection, Competition, and Monopoly in the Making of American Telecommunications (1997), and China and the Information Age: Telecommunications and the Dilemmas of Reform (1996). His journal articles cover topics like artificial general intelligence governance (Journal of Cyber Policy, 2025), AI governance (Telecommunications Policy, 2025), information operations (Cyber Defense Review, 2022), and cybersecurity attribution (Cyber Defense Review, 2019). His scholarship informs public policy, science and technology studies, law, economics, communications, and international studies, employing institutional economics, STS, political economy, historical, qualitative, and quantitative methods.