William J. Drake is the Director of the Project on the Information Revolution and Global Governance in the Program for the Study of International Organization(s) at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. In addition, he is co-editor of the MIT Press book series, The Information Revolution and Global Politics, and a consultant on global information and communication technology policy issues.

Current and recent activities include, inter alia: member, Start-Up Group and Panel of Advisors for the Global Alliance for ICT and Development (2005-present); member, United Nations Working Group on Internet Governance (2004-2005); member, WSIS civil society Internet Governance Caucus (2003-present); member, Research Network on IT Governance and Transnational Civil Society, the Social Science Research Council (2003-2005); Research Associate of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, Columbia University (1983-present); and member of the editorial boards of the journals, Telecommunications Policy, and Info: The Journal of Policy, Regulation, and Strategy for Telecommunications, Information, and Media (respectively, 1996- and 1999-present).

Previous positions held include, inter alia: President and member of the Board of Directors, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR); Visiting Senior Fellow, the Center for International Development and Conflict Management, University of Maryland, College Park; Senior Associate and Director of the Project on the Information Revolution and World Politics, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; founding Associate Director of the Communication, Culture and Technology Program, Georgetown University; Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of California, San Diego; and adjunct professor at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, and at the School of Business, Georgetown University. He has received a number of research grants, and has been an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow; a Ford Fellow in European Society and a Western Security and a MacArthur Fellow in International Security Studies at the Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; and an Albert Gallatin Fellow at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.

William Drake's scholarly research and advocacy work focuses on the national and global governance of the Internet and other information and communication technologies, and on the information revolution's impact on world politics. He received his M.A., M.Phil, and Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University.

Selected Publications

Books and Monographs

• William J. Drake and Ernest M. Wilson III, eds. Governing Global Electronic Networks: International Perspectives on Policy and Power. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, forthcoming, 2007.

• William J. Drake, ed. Reforming Internet Governance: Perspectives from the UN Working Group on Internet Governance. New York: United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force, 2005.

• Daniel Stauffacher, William J. Drake, Paul Currion, and Julia Steinberger. Information and Communications Technology for Peace (ICT4P): The Role of ICT in Preventing, Responding to and Recovering from Conflict. Report prepared for the Government of Switzerland, for the World Summit on the Information Society, Tunis, 16-18 November 2005. New York: United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Taskforce, 2005.

• William J. Drake. From the Global Digital Divide to the Global Digital Opportunity: Proposals Submitted to the G-8 Kyushu-Okinawa Summit 2000—Report of the World Economic Forum Task Force on the Global Digital Divide. Geneva: World Economic Forum, July 19, 2000.

• William J. Drake. Toward Sustainable Competition in Global Telecommunications: From Principle to Practice--Summary Report of the Third Aspen Institute Roundtable on International Telecommunications. Washington D.C.: Aspen Institute, 1999.

• William J. Drake, ed. Telecommunications in the Information Age. Washington D.C.: U.S. Information Agency, 1998.

• William J. Drake, ed. The New Information Infrastructure: Strategies for US Policy. New York: The Twentieth Century Fund Press, 1995.

• William J. Drake and the Office of International Affairs, National Academy of Sciences. Summary Report of the Workshop on The Revolution in Information and Communications Technology and the Conduct of US Foreign Affairs. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press: 1988.

Articles and Chapters

• William J. Drake. “Introduction: The Global Governance of Global Electronic Networks.” In, William J. Drake and Ernest M. Wilson III, eds. Governing Global Electronic Networks: International Perspectives on Policy and Power. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, forthcoming, 2006.

• William J. Drake and Rikke Frank Jørgensen. “Introduction.” In, Rikke Frank Jørgensen, ed., Human Rights in the Global Information Society. Cambridge MA: The MIT Press, 2006, pp. 1-49.

• William J. Drake. “Conclusion: Why the WGIG Process Mattered.” In, William J. Drake, ed. Reforming Internet Governance: Perspectives from the UN Working Group on Internet Governance. New York: United Nations, 2005, pp. 249-265.

• William J. Drake. “Collective Learning in the World Summit on the Information Society.” In, Daniel Stauffacher and Wolfgang Kleinwächter, eds., The World Summit on the Information Society: Moving from the Past into the Future. New York: United Nations Information and Communication Technology Taskforce, 2005, pp. 135-146. Also published as CPSR Working Paper No. 2.

• William J. Drake. “Reframing Internet Governance Discourse: Fifteen Baseline Propositions.” In, Don MacLean, ed. Internet Governance: A Grand Collaboration. New York: United Nations Information and Communication Technology Taskforce, 2004, pp. 122-161. Also published as a working paper of the Social Science Research Council Research Network on IT and Governance, 2004.

• William J. Drake. “The Global Digital Divide: Implications for Corruption and Transparency.” In, Proceedings of the Third Global Forum on Fighting Corruption and Safeguarding Integrity: Ongoing Challenges, Shared Responsibilities. Seoul: Republic of Korea, 2003.

• William J. Drake. “Deep but Divisive Integration: The United States and Japanese Telecommunications Policy in the Internet Age.” GLOCOM Review, 8:1 (January, 2003), pp. 59-96. Also published in, Info: The Journal of Policy, Regulation, and Strategy for Telecommunications, Information, and Media, 5 (2003), pp. 47-65.

• William J. Drake. “Communications.” In, P.J. Simmons and Chantal de Jonge Oudraat, eds., Managing Global Issues: Lessons Learned. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2001, pp. 25-74.

• William J. Drake. “The Rise and Decline of the International Telecommunications Regime.” In, Christopher T. Marsden, ed., Regulating the Global Information Society. London: Routledge, 2000, pp. 124-177.

• William J. Drake and Kalypso Nicolaïdis. “Global Electronic Commerce and the General Agreement on Trade in Services: The Millennium Round and Beyond.” In, Pierre Sauve and Robert M. Stern, eds., GATS 2000: New Directions in Services Trade Liberalization. Washington D.C.: The Brookings Institution Press, 2000, pp. 399-437.

• William J. Drake, Shanthi Kalathil, and Taylor C. Boas. "Dictatorships in the Digital Age: Some Considerations on the Internet in China and Cuba.” iMP: The Magazine on Information Impacts, (October, 2000).

• William J. Drake. “The Distributed Information Revolution and the Global Information Society.” In, Drake, ed., Telecommunications in the Information Age, 1998, pp. 6-15.

• William J. Drake and Arthur Brodsky. “The Telecommunications Act of 1996.” In, Drake, ed., Telecommunications in the Information Age, 1998, pp. 30-37.

• Robert M. Frieden and William J. Drake. “The Global Information Infrastructure.” In, Drake, ed., Telecommunications in the Information Age, 1998, pp. 74-77.

• William J. Drake and Eli M. Noam. “Assessing the WTO Agreement on Basic Telecommunications.” In, Gary Clyde Hufbauer and Erika Wada, eds. Unfinished Business:Telecommunications After the Uruguay Round. Washington, D.C.: Institute for International Economics, 1998, pp. 27-61. [Shortened version published as, William J. Drake and Eli M. Noam. “The WTO Deal on Basic Telecommunications: Big Bang or Little Whimper?” Telecommunications Policy, 21 (November/December, 1997), pp. 799-818.]

• William J. Drake. “Public Interest Groups and the Telecommunications Act of 1996.” In, Herbert Kubicek, William H. Dutton, and Robin Williams, eds., The Social Shaping of Information Highways: European and American Roads to the Information Society. Frankfurt am Main and New York: Campus Verlag and St. Martin's Press, 1997, pp. 173-198.

• William J. Drake. “Introduction: The Turning Point.” In, Drake, ed., The New Information Infrastructure, 1995, pp. 1-27.

• William J. Drake. “The National Information Infrastructure Debate: Issues, Interests, and the Congressional Process.” In, Drake, ed., The New Information Infrastructure, 1995, pp. 305-344.

• William J. Drake. “Conclusion: Policies for the National and Global Information Infrastructures.” In, Drake, ed., The New Information Infrastructure, 1995, pp. 345-378.

• William J. Drake. “Asymmetric Deregulation and the Transformation of the International Telecommunications Regime.” In, Eli M. Noam and Gerard Pogorel, eds., Asymmetric Deregulation: The Dynamics of Telecommunications Policies in Europe and the United States. Norwood: Ablex, 1994, pp. 137-203.

• William J. Drake. “The Transformation of International Telecommunications Standardization: European and Global Dimensions.” In, Charles Steinfield, Johannes Bauer and Laurence Caby, eds., Telecommunications in Transition: Policies, Services, and Technologies in the European Economic Community. Newbury Park: Sage, 1994, pp. 71-96.

• William J. Drake. “The Internet Religious War.” Telecommunications Policy, 17 (December, 1993), pp. 643-649.

• William J. Drake. “Territoriality and Intangibility: Transborder Data Flows and National Sovereignty.” In, Kaarle Nordenstreng and Herbert I. Schiller, eds., Beyond National Sovereignty: International Communications in the 1990s. Norwood: Ablex, 1993, pp. 259-313.

• William J. Drake and Kalypso Nicolaïdis. “Ideas, Interests and Institutionalization: 'Trade in Services' and the Uruguay Round.” In, Peter Haas, ed, Knowledge, Power and International Policy Coordination, a special issue of International Organization, 45 (Winter 1992), pp. 37-100. [Volume republished in book format by the University of South Carolina Press, 1997]

• William J. Drake. “The CCITT: Time for Reform?” In, Reforming the Global Network: The 1989 ITU Plenipotentiary Conference. London: International Institute of Communications, 1989, pp. 28-43.

• William J. Drake. “WATTC-88: Restructuring the International Telecommunication Regulations. ” In Telecommunications Policy 12 (September, 1988), pp. 217-233.

• William J. Drake and Lee McKnight. “Telecommunications Standards in the Global Information Economy: The Impact of Deregulation and Commercialization.” In Project Promethee Perspectives, n. 5 (March 1988), pp. 14-20. Reprinted in French as “Les standards au coeur de l'économie mondiale d'information” In, Catherine Distler, ed., La Déréglementation dans les années 90. Paris: Promethee Institute, 1988, pp. 139-147; and in, La Déréglementation dans les années 90: Enjeux pour les télécommunications et l'économie d 'information, a special issue of Le Communicateur n. 5 (Juillet 1988), pp. 139-147.

• William J. Drake. “Canada-US: Free Data Services Zone?--Special Report.” Transnational Data and Communications Report 7 (August/September, 1984), 302-307, 310 & 311. Reprinted as Columbia Institute for Tele-Information Working Paper No. 81 (New York: Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, 1985.

Working & Web Papers

• William J. Drake. “ICT Global Governance and the Public Interest: Transactions and Content Issues.” Working paper for the Social Science Research Council's Research Network on IT and Governance, 2004.

• William J. Drake. “ICT Global Governance and the Public Interest: Infrastructure Issues." Working paper for the Social Science Research Council's Research Network on IT and Governance, 2004.

• William J. Drake. “Defining ICT Global Governance.” Working paper for the Social Science Research Council 's Research Network on IT and Governance, 2004.

• William J. Drake. “Democracy and the Information Revolution.” Background paper for the Democracy Forum of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, Stockholm; June 2001.

• William J. Drake and Jamie Metzl. “Rethinking Foreign Policy Structures.” Background paper for the Carnegie Endowment workshop, Airlie House, VA; December 2000.

• William J. Drake. “Global Private Networks and International Public Institutions.” Columbia Institute for Tele-Information Working Paper No. 513. New York: Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, 1992.

• William J. Drake. “International Organization Networks as an Answer to Post-Modern Political Challenges.” Promethee Working Papers. Paris: Project Promethee, May 1990.

• William J. Drake. “The Information Revolution and the Conduct of U.S. Foreign Affairs.” Background paper for a National Academy of Sciences/ Department of State workshop, Washington DC; 1987.