WILLIAM J. DRAKE

William J. Drake is a Senior Associate at the Center for International Governance of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. 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, Columbia University; and a member of the Board of the European At Large Organization of ICANN, of the Group of High-Level Advisors of the UN Global Alliance for ICT and Development, and of the editorial boards of the journals, Telecommunications Policy, and Info.

Mr. Drake also was a member of the inaugural Steering Committee of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network, and of the UN Working Group on Internet Governance. Previous positions held include, inter alia: President of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility; Senior Associate and Director of the Project on the Information Revolution and World Politics, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Associate Director of the Communication, Culture and Technology Program, Georgetown University; and Assistant Professor of Communication, the University of California, San Diego. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University.

Some of his publications include: Governing Global Electronic Networks (co-ed., MIT Press, forthcoming, 2008); Reforming Internet Governance (ed., United Nations, 2005); Information and Communications Technology for Peace (co-author, United Nations, 2005); From the Global Digital Divide to the Global Digital Opportunity (World Economic Forum, 2000); Toward Sustainable Competition in Global Telecommunications (Aspen Institute, 1999); Telecommunications in the Information Age (ed., U.S. Information Agency, 1998); and The New Information Infrastructure (ed., Twentieth Century Fund, 1995).