Improving Cyber Security while Maintaining an Integrated World Market

An event in the MaxPo series Seminars and Colloquia On Ökonomie, Politics and Society (SCOOPS),

 

With guest speaker Peter F. Cowhey, University of California, San Diego

 

Discussant: Catherine Hoeffler, Université catholique de Lille, ESPOL

 

 

Peter F. Cowhey is the Dean and Qualcomm Professor of Communications and Technology Policy at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at UC San Diego. In 2009, he served as Senior Counselor to Ambassador Kirk in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative where he advised on the agenda for trade policy while supervising multiple USTR offices. In the Clinton Administration he served as Senior Counselor and then Chief of the International Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission during its overhaul of its global competition policies and forging of a WTO agreement on telecommunications services. Peter Cowhey is former Director of the UC system’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and head of policy studies for the California Institute on Telecommunications and Information Technology. He serves on several policy committees on innovation and technology, amongst others as chairman of the CONNECT Innovation Institute and Vice Chair of the California Council on Science and Technology. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. His newest book is Transforming Global Information and Communications Markets: The Political Economy of Change (MIT Press, 2009).

Read more about Peter F. Cowhey here.

Catherine Hoeffler is lecturer in political science at the Catholic University of Lille, at the European School of Political and Social Sciences (ESPOL). Her main research areas are comparative public policy and international political economy. She has mainly worked on the comparison of defense industrial policies in the European Union (France, Germany and the UK) as well as on the sociology of elites in the US defense and health policies. She has had the opportunity to do research or teach in French institutions (Sciences Po Paris, Sciences Po Toulouse, University of Montpellier 1) as well as abroad (Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, Cologne; CERIUM, Université de Montréal).

Read more about Catherine Hoeffler here.