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William J. Drake is an International Fellow in the Media Change and Innovation Division of the Institute of Mass Communication and Media Research at the University of Zurich, where he teaches courses on ICT global governance and the Internet and social change. His research, teaching, advocacy, and consulting work focuses on global communications and information policy and the impact of the information revolution on world politics.

Previous positions held include, inter alia: Senior Associate of the Centre for International Governance at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva; President and member of the Board of Directors, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility; 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.

Some of his activities and affiliations include co-editing the MIT Press book series, The Information Revolution and Global Politics, and memberships in: the core faculty of the European and South Schools on Internet Governance; the Program Committee (and previously, Vice-chairperson and Steering Committee member) of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network; the Council of the Generic Names Supporting Organization, the Board of Directors of the European At Large Organization, and the Executive Committee of the Noncommercial Users Constituency in the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers; the Group of High-Level Advisors of the United Nations’ Global Alliance for ICT and Development; the Civil Society Information Society Advisory Council of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; and the civil society Internet Governance Caucus of the United Nations’ Internet Governance Forum.  He is also an Affiliated Researcher at the Institute for Tele-Information at Columbia University, and a former member of: 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.

Drake received his M.A., M.Phil, and Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University.

Among his publications are: Editor, Internet Governance: Creating Opportunities for All---The Fourth Internet Governance Forum (The United Nations, 2010); Co-Editor, Governing Global Electronic Networks: International Perspectives on Policy and Power (MIT Press, 2008); Editor, Reforming Internet Governance: Perspectives from the UN Working Group on Internet Governance (United Nations, 2005); Co-Author, Information and Communications Technology for Peace (ICT4P): The Role of ICT in Preventing, Responding to and Recovering from Conflict (United Nations, 2005); Author, 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); Author, Toward Sustainable Competition in Global Telecommunications: From Principle to Practice--Summary Report of the Third Aspen Institute Roundtable on International Telecommunications (Aspen Institute, 1999); Editor, Telecommunications in the Information Age (U.S. Information Agency, 1998); and Editor, The New Information Infrastructure: Strategies for US Policy (Twentieth Century Fund, 1995).

Drake received his M.A., M.Phil, and Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University.