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Joseph L. Sax

Pioneering scholar of the public trust doctrine in U.S. environmental law; law professor at UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall; author of Playing Darts with Rembrandt and Legal Control of Water Resources.
Vandana Shiva

Indian activist for food sovereignty, indigenous knowledge, seed preservation biodiversity, and critic of genetic engineering and globalization. Shiva's homepage and Wikipedia entry.
Josh Silver

President and CEO, Free Press, the leading U.S. media reform organization, which he co-founded with Robert W. McChesney in 2002. Silver oversees all programs, campaigns, fundraising and special projects.
Gigi Sohn

President, Public Knowledge, the Washington, D.C., advocacy group for an open Internet, copyright reform and a robust cultural commons.
Felix Stalder

Teaches media economy at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Zurich (New Media Department, which he co-directs) and works as an independent researcher/organizer with groups such as the Institute for New Cultural Technologies (t0) in Vienna and Openflows in New York City.
Richard Stallman

Hacker and founder of the Free Software Foundation and legendary champion of free software.
Koleman Strumpf

Koch Professor of Economics at the University of Kansas School of Business, specializing in applied microeconomics, P2P filesharing and prediction markets.
Peter Suber

Founder and long-time editor of Open Access News, the leading blog about the open access publishing movement; now an independent policy strategist for open access to research and Berkman Fellow at Harvard University.
Eric von Hippel

Professor of Technological Innovation in the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a Professor in MIT's Engineering Systems Division. Von Hippel specializes in research related to the nature and economics of distributed and open innovation.
Jimmy Wales

Founder of Wikipedia and Wikia Inc.; online entrepreneur.

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