BRIE works with a number of highly experienced researchers outside of UC Berkeley faculty and graduate programs. Many of these research associates came up through the programs here. Others are colleagues at neighboring institutions or in local firms. All provide BRIE with the necessary breadth of vision to best analyze global and local developments in technology, economics and politics.

 


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.

Francois Bar 
Francois Bar is Assistant Professor of Communication at Stanford University. He is also Director of Network Research at the Stanford Computer Industry Project (SCIP). Dr. Bar’s current research interests include comparative telecommunication policy, as well as economic, strategic and social dimensions of computer networking, new media and the internet. 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 Jounal of Techonology Management.

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.

Martin Kenney
Martin Kenney is a Professor in the Department of Human and Community Development at the University of California, Davis. His recent research has been on the venture capital industry and the development of Silicon Valley. He is the author of approximately one hundred articles and three books including Biotechnology: The University-Industrial Complex (Yale 1986) and he recently edited the bookUnderstanding Silicon Valley (Stanford 2000). He has been a visiting scholar at Judge Institute of Management at Cambridge University, Copenhagen Business School, Hitotsubashi University, Kobe University, Osaka City University, and the University of Tokyo. He is an instructor in the Technology, Management and Organizations program at the Copenhagen Business School.


Michael Kleeman 
Mr. Kleeman was formerly the Chief Technology Officer for Catenas, Inc. Previous to this he was Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of Aerie Networks, a US nationwide long distance fiber optic carrier. Formerly a Vice President at The Boston Consulting Group and Director at Arthur D. Little, and an executive at Sprint, he has been involved with numerous technology companies in Northern California as advisor and executive. His focus has been in the telecommunications and emerging technology area and has included projects with electronic equipment manufacturers, communications carriers and Internet and e-commerce service providers. He is advisor to several start-up firms in the technology area and has worked with two major manufactures of consumer electronic devices on next generation product design, systems and planning. He holds an MA from the Claremont Graduate School, and an undergraduate degree from Syracuse University.


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.
Jennifer Sims
Dr. Sims is currently a Professorial Lecturer at Johns HopkinsUniversity School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), a freelance writer and private consultant in Washington D.C. She has served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence Coordination (1994-98), and as the Department of State’s first Coordinator for Intelligence Resources and Planning (1998-2001). Before coming to the Department of State, Dr. Sims served as Senator John Danforth’s defense and foreign policy advisor and his designee to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (1990-94). In 1998, the Director of Central Intelligence awarded Dr. Sims with the National Intelligence Community’s Distinguished Service Medal. Dr. Sims received her BA from Oberlin College and her MA and Ph.D. in European Politics and National Security Policy from Johns Hopkins SAIS.
Richard H. 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 (co-editor and co-author) (Rowman & Littlefield, 1998).

Prior 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.