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William J. Drake is a senior associate of the Centre for International Governance at the Graduate Institute of International and Development 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 (ICT) policy issues. His scholarly research, teaching/training, and policy advocacy work focuses in particular on the global governance of ICTs and the Internet, and more generally on the information revolution’s impact on world politics.

Some of his current activities and affiliations include: Vice-chairperson of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network; Research Associate of the Institute for Tele-Information at Columbia University; and memberships in: the faculty of the International Summer Schools on Internet Governance; the Council of the Generic Names Supporting Organization in the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN); the Board of Directors of the European At Large Organization in ICANN; the Noncommercial Users Constituency in ICANN; the Group of High-Level Advisors of the United Nations’ Global Alliance for ICT and Development; the interim Civil Society Information Society Advisory Council of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; and the civil society Internet Governance Caucus in the United Nations’ Internet Governance Forum.  Other recent activities and affiliations have included memberships in: the United Nations’ Working Group on Internet Governance; Working Group 1 of the United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force; the Social Science Research Council’s Research Network on IT Governance and Transnational Civil Society; and the World Economic Forum’s Task Force on the Global Digital Divide.

Previous positions held include, inter alia: President and member of the Board of Directors, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility; 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 Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies and at Georgetown University’s School of Business. Drake received his M.A., M.Phil, and Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University.

Among his publications are the books and monographs: Governing Global Electronic Networks: International Perspectives on Policy and Power (co-ed., MIT Press, 2008); Reforming Internet Governance: Perspectives from the UN Working Group on Internet Governance (ed., United Nations, 2005); Information and Communications Technology for Peace (ICT4P): The Role of ICT in Preventing, Responding to and Recovering from Conflict (co-author, United Nations, 2005); 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 (World Economic Forum, 2000); Toward Sustainable Competition in Global Telecommunications: From Principle to Practice--Summary Report of the Third Aspen Institute Roundtable on International Telecommunications (Aspen Institute, 1999); Telecommunications in the Information Age (ed., U.S. Information Agency, 1998); The New Information Infrastructure: Strategies for US Policy (Ed., Twentieth Century Fund, 1995); and Summary Report of the Workshop on The Revolution in Information and Communications Technology and the Conduct of US Foreign Affairs (coauthor, National Academy Press, 1988).