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Technology Governance

Guiding Prompts:

What are the United States and China’s understanding of cyber norms including data collection, privacy, and usage? How are the United States and China advocating norms in the international sphere? What norms should the United States advocate, and what action (if any) should the United States take? To what extent are the United States and China competing in models and ideologies? What are the core elements of that competition? How successful and/or appealing is China’s model of techno-authoritarianism? What should the United States advocate for in terms of global norms? What roles should the U.S. government, companies, academia, and society play? To what extent is Beijing promoting a “China model”?

Mentors

Dr. Adam Segal

Dr. Adam Segal is the Ira A. Lipman chair in emerging technologies and national security and director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). An expert on security issues, technology development, and Chinese domestic and foreign policy, Segal was the project director for the CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force reports Innovation and National Security: Keeping Our Edge and Defending an Open, Global, Secure, and Resilient Internet. His book The Hacked World Order: How Nations Fight, Trade, Maneuver, and Manipulate in the Digital Age (PublicAffairs, 2016) describes the increasingly contentious geopolitics of cyberspace. Before coming to CFR, Dr. Segal was an arms control analyst for the China Project at the Union of Concerned Scientists. There, he wrote about missile defense, nuclear weapons, and Asian security issues. He has been a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for International Studies, the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, and Tsinghua University in Beijing. He has taught at Vassar College and Columbia University. Dr. Segal is the author of Digital Dragon: High-Technology Enterprises in China (Cornell University Press, 2003), as well as several articles and book chapters on Chinese technology policy. Dr. Segal has a BA and PhD in government from Cornell University, and an MA in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.

Dr. Adam Segal

Ian Wallace

Ian Wallace is a senior fellow in GMF Digital, where he focuses on technology policy. Ian is a cyber and tech policy expert with 20+ years policy experience in government and the think tank community. He is currently also the chair of the Strategy & Policy Working Group of the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE). Prior to joining the German Marshall Fund, Ian spent five years directing the Cybersecurity Initiative at New America. In 2017 he helped establish the DigiChina blog (now a partnership with the Stanford Cyber Policy Center) which translates, analyzes, and open-sources digital economy material from China. Before New America, Ian spent two years as a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and had previously spent a year (2008-09) as a fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. Earlier in his career, Ian was a senior British Ministry of Defence civil servant. From 2009-13 he was the defence policy and nuclear counsellor at the British Embassy in Washington DC, which included responsibility building a relationship with US CYBERCOM. Ian has a master of arts degree in ancient & modern history from Oxford University. Ian became a dual U.S./U.K. citizen in July 2016.

Ian Wallace

Jason Matheny

Jason Matheny is founding director of the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) at Georgetown University. He serves on boards and committees of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, to which he was appointed by Congress in 2018, the National Academies, the Defense Science Board, DARPA, the Department of Energy, the Department of Commerce, AAAS, Noblis, ARLIS, the Nuclear Threat Initiative, the Center for a New American Security, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Previously he was Assistant Director of National Intelligence, and Director of IARPA, responsible for developing advanced technologies for the U.S. intelligence community. Before IARPA, he worked for Oxford University, the World Bank, the Applied Physics Laboratory, the Center for Biosecurity, and Princeton University, and was the co-founder of two biotechnology companies.

Jason Matheny