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Esther Dyson

Esther Dyson is chairman of EDventure Holdings Inc., a diversified company focused on emerging information technology worldwide, and on the emerging computer markets of Central and Eastern Europe.

Dyson is on the board of directors of more than two dozen private corporations on four continents. She is also a board member of several public-policy organizations including the Foundation, Santa Fe Institute, The Institute for EastWest Studies, the Eurasia Foundation and the President's Export Council Subcommittee on Encryption.

Dyson is a noted author. Her first book, "Release 2.0: A Design For Living in the Digital Age," was published in 1997 and has been translated into more than a dozen languages. Dyson writes a bi-weekly column for the UK's Guardian Newspaper, is a columnist for Content Magazine and is an occasional commentator on National Public Radio. She is also a frequent keynote speaker at events and annual conferences in both the English and Russian languages.

Dyson graduated from Harvard in 1972 with a B.A. in economics. She spent much of her time at Harvard working on The Harvard Crimson, a daily newspaper.