Quello Center - Telecommunication Management and Law

“Governing the Revolution in Global Information and Communications Markets”

Peter F. Cowhey, Senior Counselor, US Trade Representative; Dean and Qualcomm Professor, UC San Diego (on leave)

Post-lecture reception sponsored by the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media’s ICT for Development Lecture Series.

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Peter Cowhey is serving as the Senior Counselor to the US Trade Representative while on leave from his position as Dean and Qualcomm Professor at the University of California, San Diego.

He has served as Associate Vice Chancellor and Dean of the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies since 2001.  He is the former Director of the University of California system’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and head of policy studies for the California Institute on Telecommunications and Information Technology.

Cowhey’s research has especially focused on the political economy of international trade, investment and regulatory policies.  He served as the Senior Counselor to the Chairman and Chief of the International Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission from 1994 to 1997.  During this time the Commission completely revamped its global competition policies and worked intensively with USTR on forging a WTO agreement on basic telecommunications services.  His newest book is Transforming Global Information and Communications Markets: The Political Economy of Change (MIT Press, 2009).

Cowhey serves on the boards of the Grameen Foundation, the Institute of the Americas, and the California Council on Science and Technology.  He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pacific Council on International Affairs.

Cowhey holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University, and a master’s and Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.