Burri Mira

Mira Burri has been a senior research fellow at the World Trade Institute since the very beginning of the NCCR Trade project. During the NCCR Phase 1 (2005-2009), Mira was the alternate leader of the eDiversity group.

Next to her NCCR projects, she is now leading a separate research effort, sponsored by the Swiss Science Foundation, on the reform of the institution of public service broadcasting in the digital age. Mira is a lecturer in international media law at the University of Bern, as well as a member of the MILE faculty and a guest lecturer at the Europe Institute of the University of Basel.

Mira received her law degree from the University of Sofia and a Master of Advanced European Studies (MAES) from the Europe Institute Basel. Her doctoral thesis dealt with EC communications and competition law (Cameron May 2007) and was awarded the Professor Walther Hug prize for one of the best doctoral theses in law in Switzerland (2006/2007). Prior to joining the NCCR in 2005, Mira was a research fellow at the University of Lucerne and contributed actively to establishing the i-call research centre.

Mira is the co-editor of the publications Free Trade versus Cultural Diversity (Schulthess 2004); Digital Rights Management: The End of Collecting Societies? (Staempfli et al. 2005) as well as more recently, Intellectual Property and Traditional Cultural Expressions in a Digital Environment (Edward Elgar 2008) and Governance of Digital Game Environments and Cultural Diversity (Edward Elgar 2010).
Mira is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Communications Law and Policy, as well as a rapporteur to the UK Economic and Social Research Council. Mira consults the European Parliament on cultural diversity matters.