Keith Culver brings UniverSud Paris and its partners a broad range of experience as a researcher, teacher and administrator.  In eleven years as a professor at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada, he pursued research and teaching at the intersection of jurisprudence, policy, innovation and technology, focussing on social acceptance of the innovative technologies underpinning sustainable societies and economies. 

As director of an interdisciplinary research centre (Centre for Social Innovation Research) he has led or participated as a key partner in a range of research projects integrating academic expertise and research questions with the operations and needs of businesses and government, with partners ranging from information technology firms to engineering and biotechnology firms.  Culver has been an active advocate of integrating theory and practice for mutual benefit: he was the founding head of the e-Government Group of the National Research Council of Canada Institute for Information Technology, and served in 2007-2008 as the only academic member of the Government of New Brunswick Working Group on Governance, and previously as Senior Policy Advisor on E-Democracy to the Government of New Brunswick Task Force on Self-Sufficiency.

Culver has served as Chair of the Research Management Committee of AquaNet, the Network of Centres of Excellence in Aquaculture. Culver has been an invited academic visitor at the universities of Oxford and Stirling, and most recently, was McCain Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh's SCRIPT law and technology centre.  Culver has also served recently as the first Visiting Professor of Science-Policy Integration with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Government of Canada.  He has written numerous publications in the area of law, policy, innovation and technology.  He is a member of editorial boards of a number of journals such as the Journal of Information Technology and Politics, the International Journal of E-Government Research, and Problema.