Jonathan Aronson

Jonathan D. Aronson received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University . He is the director of the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California where he is also a professor. He also teaches at the Annenberg School of Communications. Professor Aronson’s research focuses on international political economy with special attention to trade negotiations, trade in services, comparative regulation, international strategic alliances, and especially international telecommunications. His research also focuses on the impact of the globalization of telecommunications networks on international financial activities and the implications of these changes for regulation. He and co-author Peter Cowhey have written several books, including Managing the World Economy: the Consequences of Corporate Alliances and Countries Talk: Trade in Telecommunication Services. His most recent book, Managing the World Economy: The Consequences of Corporate Alliances, considers how changes in the way the world economy works will force governments to find new ways to conduct their international economic relations after the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations. He also studies how the globalization of telecommunications networks is influenced by intellectual property, standard setting, and competition policy issues and the implications of these changes for regulation, privacy and the digital divide.

Francois Bar

François Bar is Assistant Professor of Communication at Stanford University . He is also Director of Network Research at the Stanford Computer Industry Project (SCIP). Since 1983, he has worked with the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE), at UC Berkeley, where he served as program director for research on telecommunications policy and information networking. His research has been published in books of collected studies, in policy reports, and in such journals as Telecommunication Policy, Infrastructure Economics and Policy, Communications & Strategies, Reseaux, and the International Journal of Technology Management. His books include Managing the World Economy: The Consequences of International Corporate Alliances (Council on Foreign Relations) and When Countries Talk: International Trade in Telecommunications Services (Balllinger). His most recent work has focused on the implications of new communications technologies for international financial and trade policies and developments.

John Cioffi

John W. Cioffi is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California , Riverside . Professor Cioffi’s research interests include: law and political economy; comparative corporate governance; comparative public law and regulation; comparative political economy; and legal and regulatory reform. He has taught American constitutional law (federal structure and powers, civil liberties, and criminal procedure), regulation and regulatory politics, comparative political economy, and law and policy in the digital economy. His research has appeared in the Law & Policy, the Journal of Law and Society, and the American Journal of Comparative Law.

Peter Cowhey

Peter F. Cowhey was named IGCC Director July 1, 2000. Cowhey holds a joint appointment as professor in the Department of Political Science and at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. His major fields of research are international political economy, comparative foreign policy, and international relations theory. In 1994, Dr. Cowhey took leave from UC San Diego to join the Federal Communications Commission. In 1997, he became the chief of the International Bureau of the FCC where he was in charge of all policy and licensing for international telecommunications services, including all satellite issues and licensing for the FCC. Prior to becoming bureau chief he was the commission’s senior counselor for International Economic and Competition Policy. His current research includes the political determinants of foreign policy, the reorganization of the global communications and information industries, and the future of foreign trade and investment rules in the Pacific Rim .

Kenji Kushida

Kenji Kushida is the Takahashi Research Associate in Japanese Studies. During the 2010–11 academic year, he served as a Walter H. Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellow. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, and was a graduate research associate at the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy. Kushida has an MA in East Asian studies and BAs in economics and East Asian studies, all from Stanford University.

Kushida's research interests are in the fields of comparative politics, political economy, and information technology. His country expertise is primarily in Japan, with comparisons to Korea, China, and the United States. He has three streams of research. The first examines political economy issues surrounding information technology, such as how IT is transforming services activities, and how cloud computing is opening new policy debates in different ways across diverse economies. Related past publications include comparative analyses of broadband and wireless development in Japan and South Korea. His second research stream examines, through a study of the political strategies of foreign multinational corporations in Japan, the mechanisms of how foreign direct investment can drive institutional change. A book manuscript is currently underway. The third stream analyzes how Japan’s political economy has transformed since the 1990s, with a focus on institutional change. An edited volume from the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center is forthcoming.

Jonah Levy

Jonah Levy received his Ph.D. in political science from MIT in 1994. He teaches courses in the areas of comparative political economy, West European politics, and social policy. Levy’s current research examines the relationship between partisanship and welfare reform in contemporary Western Europe . His publications include: Tocqueville’s Revenge: State, Society, and Economy in Contemporary France (Harvard University Press, 1999); Vice into Virtue? Progressive Politics and Welfare Reform in Continental Europe , Politics and Society, June 1999; Directing Adjustment? The Politics of Welfare Reform in France, in Fritz Scharpf and Vivienne Schmidt (eds.), From Vulnerability to Competitiveness: Welfare and Work in the Open Economy, (Oxford University Press); Globalization, Liberalization, and National Capitalisms, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, March 1997; and The Twin Restorations: The Political Economy of the Reagan and Thatcher ‘Revolutions’, (with Robert Kagan and John Zysman), in Lee-Jay Cho and Y. H. Kim (eds.), Ten Paradigms of Market Economies.

Niels Christian Nielsen

Niels Christian Nielsen was on the founding Board of 2MIinvest a/s, a highly successful venture capital firm, and served as the company’s Chairman from 1994 and until its successful IPO early year 2000. Niels Christian is currently the CEO and President of Catenas, Inc. He has had advisory functions in industrial policy for the governments of the United States , Canada , Australia and several European countries. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Codan, Jyllands Posten, Unimerco, Hofman Bang, Mandag Morgen, Learning Lab and the foreign companies connected with Catenas. Niels Christian is also member of the National Council for Competency. He has been a pioneer in developing viable models for network cooperation among companies in practice, but also advised governments around the world how to enable small firm competitiveness by implementing network programs.

Jessica Rothernberg-Aalami

Dr. Jessica Rothenberg-Aalami is a research scholar with the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy where she coordinates the efforts of the Innovation Alliance between the Silicon Valley , Denmark and Finland . Her research focuses on global production and innovation networks, outsourcing/offshoring, and regional development. Jessica also runs the Informal Economy Network working group of the Center for Responsible Business, Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, directing efforts on information communication technologies for emerging economies (ICT4B+), social economic impact assessments, gender and development and global corporate citizenship. Dr. Rothenberg-Aalami also consults major IT companies on their global business activities and their strategy and planning. She is currently working on a book, has chapters in textbooks (e.g. Southeast Asia Diversity and Development and The Making of Corporate Social Responsibility: New Regularly Regimes of Labor, Community and Environment), and articles on a variety of topics (latest: “ Coming Full Circle ?: Missed Links Along Nike's Production Networks in Viet Nam ” in Global Networks, October 2004). She holds a PhD in Economic Geography, an MA in International Studies and a Master's Certificate in Business Administration and Management. Her undergraduate degree is from UC Berkeley in Political Economy of Industrial Societies (PEIS). She is fluent in German and Vietnamese.

Olli Rehn

Director of Research Olli Rehn holds a D.Phil. in international political economy from the University of Oxford (thesis: Corporatism and Industrial Competitiveness in Small European States). Currently his research and teaching interests focus on institutions and policy networks of the European Union, as well as on the political economy of the knowledge-driven economy. In 2002, he conducted an evaluation project and strategic assessment of the Finnish Communications Regulatory Agency. He served as the Head of Cabinet for Commissioner Erkki Liikanen in 1998-2002 and in that capacity was member of the Commission’s internal crossdepartmental steering group of the eEurope action plan in 1999-2002. Prior to that, he led two major research projects in 1996-97, one focusing on the political economy of Eastern enlargement of the EU, the other concentrating on coordination and policy networks of EU decision-making in Finland . He was a Member of the European Parliament in 1995-96 and of the Parliament of Finland in 1991-95.

Jonathan Sallet

Since 2001, Jonathan Sallet has advised start-up technology companies on marketing and business-development through his own consulting group, Quintessence, LLC. From 1996 to 2000, he served as Chief Policy Officer of WorldCom managing an organization of lawyers and economists concentrating on market opportunities created by the landmark Telecommunications Act of 1996. During the presidential campaign of 2000, Mr. Sallet worked closely with Senator Joseph I. Lieberman. His work included heading Senator Lieberman’s debate team and managing his announcement and Convention speeches. Mr. Sallet also served as a policy advisor to the Gore presidential campaign before Senator Lieberman’s selection. From 1993-1996, Mr. Sallet headed the Office of Policy & Strategic Planning at the U.S. Department of Commerce. In 1995, he was asked to be among the few contributors to advise President Clinton on themes in his 1996 State of the Union Address. From 1980 to 1993, Mr. Sallet practiced law in Washington D.C. , first with Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin and then with the local office of the Chicago law firm of Jenner & Block. From 1979-80, Mr. Sallet served as a law clerk to Associate Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., of the United States Supreme Court. A graduate of the University of Virginia Law School, Mr. Sallet was Editor-In-Chief of the Virginia Law Review and a member of the Raven Society. His undergraduate degree is from Brown University .

Richard Steinberg

Richard H. Steinberg is Professor of Law at the University of California , Los Angeles , where he teaches and writes about international law and politics. He has taught international law courses at Stanford Law School , the University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), the University of Coimbra in Portugal , and the University of Paris I. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the Editorial Board of International Organization.

Dr. Steinberg has written over thirty articles covering a range of international topics, including international trade law and politics, international intellectual property protection, international human rights law and politics, and the nature of the state. His books include: The Evolution of the Trade Regime: Economics, Politics, and Law of the GATT/WTO (with John Barton, Judith Goldstein, and Tim Josling) (forthcoming, 2004); The Greening of Trade Law: Environmental Issues and International Trade Organizations (editor and co-author) (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002); and Partners or Competitors? The Prospects for U.S.-EU Cooperation on Asian Trade (coeditor and co-author) (Rowman & Littlefield, 1998).

Pr ior to joining the UCLA law faculty, Dr. Steinberg was Assistant General Counsel to the United States Trade Representative (1989-91), an associate at the international law firm of Morrison & Foerster (1991-93), and Project Director for International Trade Studies at BRIE (1993-96).

Dr. Steinberg received a J.D. degree from Stanford Law School (1986), as well as a Ph.D. degree in International Politics from Stanford (1992). He received a B.A. degree, magna cum laude, in Economics and Political Science from Yale (1982). Dr. Steinberg was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in International Security Studies in 1985, and a Ford Fellowship in Western Security and European Society for research at Harvard University in 1987-88.

Nicolas Veron

Nicolas Véron, a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Mines in Paris, has worked both in the private and public sector and now heads ECIF, a business consultancy specialized in financial information. Prior to founding ECIF in late 2002, he was CFO of MultiMania / Lycos France, a leading, publicly-listed French internet portal company. Before that, he had been senior corporate adviser to Minister of Labor Martine Aubry in 1997-2000. Véron is also involved as a scholar in various French publications and think tanks.