Prior to his arrival Mr. Verhulst was the founder and director of the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP) at Oxford University, as well as senior research fellow at the Centre for Socio Legal Studies. In that capacity he was appointed the socio-legal research fellow at Wolfson College (Oxford). In addition, he was the Unesco Chairholder in Communications Law and Policy for the UK.

Before his move to Oxford in 1996, he had been a lecturer on communications law and policy issues in Belgium and founder and co-director of the International Media and info-comms Policy and Law studies (IMPS) at the School of Law, University of Glasgow. Mr. Verhulst has served as consultant to various international and national organizations including the Council of Europe, European Commission, Unesco, UNDP, USAID and DFID.

Among his numerous publications include: In Search of the Self: Conceptual Approaches to Internet Self Regulation (Routledge, 2001), Convergence in European Communications Regulation (Blackstone, 1999), EC Media Law and Policy (AWL, 1998), Legal Responses to the Changing Media (OUP, 1998), and Broadcasting Reform in India (OUP, 1998). Mr. Verhulst is invited regularly to speak at industry and academic conferences globally. He is also the founder and editor of the International Journal of Communications Law and Policy and the Communications Law in Transition Newsletter. He is married and has one daughter and one son.