Brian Kahin

Innovation Policy Fellow at OECD’s Directorate of Science, Technology and Industry, Senior Fellow at the Computer & Communications Industry Association, and Fellow at the Center for Digital Business at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. From 1989 to 1997, Brian Kahin was founding Director of the Information Infrastructure Project at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, the first academic program to address the social, economic, and policy implications of the Internet. He subsequently served three years as Senior Policy Analyst in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. He has taught at the Harvard Kennedy School, the University of Maryland, the University of Michigan, and the University of Colorado. He has edited ten books on Internet-related policy, most recently Advancing Knowledge and the Knowledge Economy (with Dominique Foray. MIT Press, 2006).