Professor Alison Harcourt is Professor of public policy at the University of Exeter. She specialises the regulation of digital markets and is interested in solutions to regulatory problems based around the citizen/consumer and civil society voice. Her recent research derives from her ESRC project International Professional Fora: a study in civil society participation in internet governance and ESRC Senior Fellowship on the UK in a Changing Europe programme project on Brexit and communications markets. Professor Harcourt was conferred as Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2018 and is Visiting Professor at the Department of Media and Communications at LSE in 2022-3.