Drake,
William
Geneva,
Senior Associate, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development;
President, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
William J. Drake is the President of Computer
Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) and a Senior Associate at the
International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) in Geneva,
Switzerland. In addition, he is co-editor of the MIT Press book series, the
Information Revolution and Global Politics; a Research Associate of the
Institute for Tele-Information at Columbia University; a member of the Social
Science Research Council Network on IT Governance and Civil Society; and a
member of the editorial boards of the journals Telecommunications Policy and
Info. Previously, he has been: Visiting Senior Fellow at the Centre for
International Development and Conflict Management, University of Maryland,
College Park; Senior Associate and founding Director of the Project on
Information Revolution and World Politics, the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace; founding Associate Director of the Communication, Culture
and Technology Program, Georgetown University; Assistant Professor of
Communication at the University of California, San Diego; and adjunct professor
at both the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
and the School of Business,
Georgetown University. In addition, he has been an American Political Science
Association Congressional Fellow; a Ford Fellow in European Society and Western
Security, and a MacArthur Fellow in International Security Studies at the Centre
for International Affairs, Harvard University; and an Albert Gallatin Fellow at
the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.
His research is on global communications and information policy, with particular
emphasis on the role of international regimes. He received his M.A.,
M.Phil, and Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University.