Steven Weber
Education
Ph.D. and M.A., political science, Stanford University
Summary of Experience
Professor Weber is a deeply experienced technologist whose multidisciplinary research has focused on innovation in technology markets, intellectual property regimes, and the related behaviors of people, firms, and governments. His research, teaching, and advisory work centers on both private and public sector issues around information technology, software, cybersecurity, privacy, algorithms, and health care. Professor Weber has advised global technology companies, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations on strategy and risk analysis, using a diverse set of qualitative and quantitative methods fit to purpose. In litigation, Professor Weber has been retained on behalf of technology companies to analyze aspects of technological integration, including those involving data security and algorithms. He was the founder and faculty director for the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, and his cybersecurity credentials enable him to supplement his experience in organizational governance issues with an understanding of the technical nature of security threats and responses. Professor Weber served as a special consultant to the president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and has held academic fellowships with the Council on Foreign Relations and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He is a widely published author, whose books include The Success of Open Source and Bloc by Bloc: How to Build a Global Enterprise for the New Regional Order, which explains how economic geography is increasingly defined by technology rules and standards.