Professor Robert G. Picard is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a senior research fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, and a fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale University Law School. His scholarship focuses on the nexus between the economics of media and communications systems and public policy.

He has been a professor for 4 decades at universities in Europe and the United States, has taught at the University of Oxford and Harvard University, is the author and editor of 33 books, and has been editor of the Journal of Media Business Studies and The Journal of Media Economics. Picard received his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and had post-doctoral study and fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, and the University of Oxford.

He has consulted and carried out assignments for governments in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and international organizations, including the European Commission, UNESCO, and the World Intellectual Property Organisation. He has consulted for leading media companies in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America.