Roslyn Layton

Roslyn Layton is an international expert in evidence-based policy for information & communications technology (ICT) industries. She is a Visiting Researcher at the Center for Communication, Media, and Information Technologies (CMI) at Aalborg University and a Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. She holds a PhD from the Doctoral School of Engineering and Science at Aalborg University in Denmark. Her doctoral thesis investigated the empirical outcome of net neutrality policy across 53 countries, using data science and business economics to measure the impact of different types of rules on the level of mobile app innovation. She holds an MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management where she was awarded the Wall Street Journal Europe Women in Business Scholarship and an undergraduate degree from the School of International Service at the American University in Washington D.C. with a focus on economics and Japanese studies. Roslyn writes on technology policy for Forbes, US News and World Report, and AEIdeas. Prior to academe, she worked in the information technology (IT) industry and financial industry. She was a business development executive for TCS Innovation Labs in Hyderabad, India focusing on bioinformatics, algorithmic finance, and e-security. She managed a leading digital advertising agency with the Coremetrics IBM analytics platform serving 2000 companies from San Mateo, CA. As a financial advisor at Piper Jaffray, she worked with non-profit organizations on fund development and endowment management. Roslyn serves on the Program Committee of the Telecom Policy Research Conference.

Publications

Gender Gaps and the Social Inclusion Movement in ICT
Idongesit Williams, Olga Millward, Roslyn Layton. © 2019. 325 pages.
Despite advancements in technological and engineering fields, there is still a digital gender divide in the adoption, use, and development of information communication technology...
The Conundrum of Falling Participation of Women in Math and Computing Jobs: Observations From the USA and Denmark
Roslyn Layton. © 2019. 18 pages.
The USA and Denmark are leading information communications technologies (ICT)-enabled economies and have a variety of policies to promote women in ICT occupations, but both...