Stephen S. Cohen is a Professor of Regional Planning at the University of California at Berkeley, and Co-Director of the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE). Professor Cohen has extensive experience as an international economic consultant, having worked abroad with the OECD, the United Nations, the governments of France and Denmark , the Prefect of Paris, and the presidents of Columbia and Spain , as well as with several major European and Japanese corporations. In the United States , he has consulted to the White House, the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress, the House Banking Committee, the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, and the Department of Commerce, and with several major and smaller corporations.

Professor Cohen’s articles have appeared in such journals as Science, Foreign Affairs, The Harvard Business Review, Technology Review, The New York Times, Les Temps Modernes, Le Monde, El Pais, and The Wall Street Journal. His books include: The New Global Economy in the Information Age: Reflections On Our Changing World, Manuel Castells, and Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Reading Our Times, ed., with Michael Boskin, Richard Darmon, J. K. Galbraith, Manufacturing Matters, with John Zysman, France in the Troubled World Economy, with Peter Gourevitch, and Modern Capitalist Planning: The French Model.

Professor Cohen received his B.A. from Williams College and his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. He has been a member of the Berkeley faculty since 1968. He has received numerous awards, fellowships and visiting professorships, including The Medal of Paris.

Bradford DeLong

Bradford DeLong is Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley . He is also Co-Editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco .

DeLong served in the U.S. government as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy from 1993 to 1995. Before joining the Treasury Department he was Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Harvard University . He has also been a John M. Olin Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, an Assistant Professor of Economics at Boston University, and a Lecturer in the Department of Economics at M.I.T. Brad DeLong has taught finance, macroeconomics, economic history, and social theory with a focus on economic growth, on the role and functioning of financial markets, and on comparative industrial revolutions.

He has written on, among other topics, the evolution and functioning of the U.S. and other nations’ stock markets, the course and determinants of long-run economic growth, the making of economic policy, the changing nature of the American business cycle, and the history of economic thought. His major current projects are two books: an intermediate macroeconomics textbook called—no surprise— Macroeconomics, and The Economic History of the Twentieth Century: Slouching Towards Utopia?

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 book Understanding 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 .

Jay Stowsky

Jay Stowsky is Assistant Vice Provost for Academic Planning and Facilities at UC Berkeley and senior research associate at BRIE. He served previously 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) and as the CEA’s interim chief of staff. Dr. Stowsky is co-author, with Matthew Kroenig, of “War Makes the State, but not as it pleases: American Anti-Statism and Homeland Security” (Security Studies 15:2 April-June 2006, forthcoming). He has authored several studies of U.S. technology policy, including “Secrets to Shield or Share? New Dilemmas for Military R&D Policy in the Digital Age” (Research Policy Journal, 2004, vol. 33, issue 2) 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). His research interests include national innovation systems, comparative science and technology policy, economic geography, and the commercial impact of military research and development, as well as public-sector management.

Steven Weber

Steven Weber is Professor of Political Science where he directs the multi-disciplinary campus- wide Institute of International Studies. He is an associate with the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE) and the International Computer Science Institute, and an affiliated faculty of the Energy and Resources Group. Working at the intersection of technology markets, intellectual property, and international relations, Steve’s research and teaching covers areas as diverse as US foreign and security policy, health care, international political economy, software markets, and emerging geopolitical issues of the 21 st century, in particular Sino-American relations.

Steve went to medical school at Stanford then did his Ph.D. in the political science department at Stanford. He served as special consultant to the president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London and has held academic fellowships with the Council on Foreign Relations and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. For the last decade Steve has consulted with multinational companies, government agencies, and non-profit organizations on risk analysis, strategy and business forecasting.

Steve’s most recent book, The Success of Open Source, (Harvard University Press, April 2004) is an internationally acclaimed study of the political economy of the open source software community, recently translated into Japanese and Chinese. He is also the author of Cooperation and Discord in US – Soviet Arms Control, and the editor of Globalization and the European Political Economy, as well as numerous articles in academic and popular publications. He is currently writing a book that explains the emerging dangers of the Chinese – American relationship and how America can seize the upside.

John Zysman

Professor Zysman has been a member of the University of California , Berkeley faculty, teaching European politics and political economy, since 1974, and is Co-Director of the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE) since its establishment in 1982. He has written has extensively on European and Japanese policy and corporate strategy; his interests also include comparative politics, Western European politics, and political economy. Professor Zysman’s publications include The Highest Stakes: The Economic Foundations of the Next Security System (Oxford University Press, 1992), Manufacturing Matters: The Myth of the Post-Industrial Economy (Basic Books, 1987), and Governments, Markets, and Growth: Finance and the Politics of Industrial Change (Cornell University Press, 1983). Within the last two years he has hosted a number of conferences and meetings on issues facing the new “E-conomy,” including a conference in Washington DC in September 2000 entitled “The E-Business Transformation: Sector Developments and Policy Implications.” He has also contributed many articles and books to the academic discourse on e-commerce.