In 2009, Doctorow became the first Independent Studies Scholar in Virtual Residence at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. He is a frequent public speaker on copyright issues. The professorship included a one year writing and teaching residency at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He was named the 2006-2007 Canadian Fulbright Chair for Public Diplomacy at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy, sponsored jointly by the Royal Fulbright Commission, the Integrated Media Systems Center, and the USC Center on Public Diplomacy. Upon his departure, Doctorow was named a Fellow of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The company was sold to the Open Text Corporation of Waterloo, Ontario in the summer of 2003.ĭoctorow moved to London and worked as European Affairs Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation for four years, helping to establish the Open Rights Group, before quitting to pursue writing full-time in January 2006. In June 1999, he co-founded the free software P2P company Opencola with John Henson and Grad Conn. In 1992 Doctorow went on a volunteer trip to Costa Rica with Youth Challenge International (YCI), which he found "profoundly good and profoundly enriching". He later served on the board of directors for the Grindstone Island Co-operative in Big Rideau Lake in Ontario.
He received his high school diploma from SEED School, an anarchistic "free school" in Toronto, and attended four universities without attaining a degree. His father was born in a refugee camp in Azerbaijan and Doctorow became involved in the nuclear disarmament movement and as a Greenpeace campaigner as a child. Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to Trotskyist teachers, Doctorow was raised in a Jewish activist household.
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