Michael Allen Geist (born 11 July 1968) is a
Canadian academic, and the
Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-Commerce Law at the
University of Ottawa. Geist was educated at the
University of Western Ontario where he received his Bachelors of Laws before going on to get his Masters of Laws at both
Osgoode Hall Law School and
Cambridge University. After that, he attended
Columbia Law School where he got his Doctorate in Law.
His weekly columns on new technology and its legal ramifications appear in the
Vancouver Sun,
Toronto Star and the
Ottawa Citizen. He served on Canada's National Task Force on Spam and is the founder of the
Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic. Geist is active on many boards, including the
CANARIE Board of Directors, the
CanLII Board of Directors, the
Privacy Commissioner of Canada's Expert Advisory Board, the
Electronic Frontier Foundation Advisory Board, and on the Information Program Sub-Board of the
Open Society Institute. He was also a board member of the
Canadian Internet Registration Authority, which manages the dot
.ca domain, for six years.
Geist was named one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 in 2002. In 2010, he was listed globally as one of the top fifty influential people in regards to intellectual property by
Managing Intellectual Property.
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