Jay Stowsky is executive director of the UC Berkeley Project on Information Technology and Homeland Security (ITHS) based at the Goldman School of Public Policy (GSPP) and co-director of research at the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE), also at UC Berkeley. He is also a lecturer at GSPP and in the Department of Political Science.

Previously, Dr. Stowsky served as associate dean at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business (1998-2003) and Director of Research Policy for the University of California system, a position that also oversees research relationships between the UC campuses and the three UC-managed Department of Energy national laboratories (1995-1998). Prior to that, Dr. Stowsky served in the Clinton Administration as senior economist for science and technology policy on the staff of the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) (1993-1995) and as the CEA's interim chief of staff (1995).

Dr. Stowsky has authored several studies of U.S. technology policy, including "Secrets to Share or Shield New Dilemmas for Military R&D in the Digital Age" Research Policy (forthcoming) and The Dual-Use Dilemma, Issues in Science and Technology (Winter 1996). He is co-author, with Wayne Sandholtz, et al, of The Highest Stakes The Economic Foundations of the Next Security System (Cambridge Oxford University Press, 1992) and has contributed to several edited books, including Arming the Future (New York Council on Foreign Relations, 1999) edited by Ann Markusen and Sean Costigan, Investing in Innovation: Creating a Research and Innovation Policy That Works, edited by Lewis Branscomb and James Keller (Cambridge, MA MIT Press, 1998), and Politics and Productivity How Japan's Development Strategy Works, edited by Chalmers Johnson, Laura D'Andrea Tyson, and John Zysman (Cambridge, MA Ballinger, 1989).

Dr. Stowsky’s research interests include information and knowledge management within and between organizations, innovation systems, science and technology policy, economic geography, and the commercial impacts of military-sponsored research, as well as public-sector management and organization theory.