Bio

Brian Kahin is Senior Fellow at the Computer & Communications Industry Association in Washington DC, where his work focuses on patent policy, standards, open source, and innovation policy. He is also Research Investigator and Adjunct Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information and an advisor to the Associate Provost for Academic Information. Kahin was founding Director of the Information Infrastructure Project at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government (1989-97). He served as Senior Policy Analyst in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 1997 to 2000. He helped found the Interactive Multimedia Association in 1986 and served as general counsel for ten years.

Kahin’s work addresses public policy and the political economy of knowledge, innovation, information technology, and intellectual property. Reflecting his own background in academia, industry, and government, he stresses the importance of policy debate and analysis that reflects diverse perspectives, the need for informed, empirically grounded, multidisciplinary policy development, and the need for academic research that is accessible and useful to the national and international policy community. Kahin has edited ten books on Internet-related policy, including Standards Policy for Information Infrastructure (MIT Press 1995). A more complete bio and list of publications is available at http://www.si.umich.edu/~kahin/bio.html

Education

JD Harvard Law School; AB Harvard College

Courses

TLEN 5834 Standards: Business, Law, and Policy