Agenda

Ravi Shankar Chaturvedi is the Lecturer in Global Business, Director of Research, and Doctoral Research Fellow for Innovation and Change at Fletcher’s Institute for Business in the Global Context (IBGC), where he leads the Digital Planet research program and teaches International Strategy and Innovation in the Master of Global Business Administration (GBA) program.

He has written several influential articles in business and international affairs publications. Digital Planet research is widely cited around the world, with hundreds of mainstream media articles, citations in academic journals, and references in more than 30 global languages. Chaturvedi has extensive experience in emerging markets, strategy and business management, and the payments industry. He served as a member of the Advisory Group for the Estonian Government’s e-Residency program.

Prior to Fletcher, Chaturvedi was the head of Portfolio and Products for the Middle East and North Africa region at American Express. He also worked in various capacities in parts of Asia for a decade with organizations such as Standard Chartered, HSBC, and Hewlett Packard.

Francesca Spidalieri is a Senior Fellow at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy at Salve Regina University, where she leads the Cyber Leadership research project and the Rhode Island Corporate Cybersecurity Initiative (RICCI). She is also an Associate at Hathaway Global Strategies, and serves as Co-Principal Investigator for the Cyber Readiness Index 2.0 project at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies and as a Distinguished Fellow at the Ponemon Institute. Her academic research and publications have focused on cyber leadership development, cyber risk management, comparative organization analysis, and national cyber preparedness and resilience. She lectures regularly at cyber-related events in Europe and the US and contributes to journal articles and other publications on cybersecurity matters affecting countries and organizations worldwide.

Thomas Morgan is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Economics and Peace, where he is the chief researcher on the Global Terrorism Index and Global Peace Index. In 2013 he was a visiting researcher at the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Institute, at the University of Oxford. He holds a Master of Economics degree from the University of Sydney.

Bill Dutton is the Quello Professor of Media and Information Policy at Michigan State University, where he is Director of the Quello Center. He was the OII’s Founding Director, a Fellow of Balliol College and the first Professor of Internet Studies at Oxford University. Before coming to Oxford in 2002, he was a Professor in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, where he is now an Emeritus Professor. In the UK, he was a Fulbright Scholar 1986-87, and was National Director of the UK’s Programme on Information and Communication Technologies (PICT) from 1993 to 1996.

His recent publications on the social aspects of information and communication technologies include Society on the Line (Oxford University Press, 1999), and Transforming Enterprise, co-edited (MIT Press, 2005), and World Wide Research: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities, co-edited with P. Jeffreys (MIT Press, 2011). He is currently editing a handbook on Internet Studies for Oxford University Press and a four volume series of readings on the Internet and Politics for Routledge.

His service includes chairing the Advisory Committee for England of the UK’s Office of Communications (Ofcom), and participating on the NHS Direct Innovation Committee.

He was Director of the OII from 2002 to 2011.

Melissa Hathaway brings a multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional perspective to strategic consulting and strategy formulation for public and private sector clients. She is a member of the Board of Regents at Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. She is also serves as a Senior Advisor at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, a Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation in Canada, and is the Chair of the Council of Experts for the Global Cyber Security Center in Italy. She served in two U.S. presidential administrations, spearheading the Cyberspace Policy Review for President Barack Obama and leading the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI) for President George W. Bush. At the conclusion of her government service, she received the National Intelligence Reform Medal in recognition of her achievements.

Previously, Ms. Hathaway was a Principal with Booz Allen & Hamilton, Inc., where she led two primary business units: information operations and long range strategy and policy support, supporting key offices within the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. Earlier in her career, she worked with Evidence Based Research, Inc. and the American Foreign Service Association. Ms. Hathaway is a frequent keynote speaker on cyber security matters, and regularly publishes papers and commentary in this field.

David is Lead Counsel, Innovation & Technology, in the Legal Department at the World Bank. David has global responsibility for legal aspects of reforms in information and communications technologies, including telecommunications, the Internet, e-Commerce, Cybersecurity, data protection and open source software. Prior to joining the Bank, David worked in human rights law in Geneva, and later was involved in communications investments in the United States, Europe, Latin America and Asia, both as in-house legal counsel and in private law practice based in Brussels, London and Atlanta. David received his BA (1982) and MA (1984) in History from Johns Hopkins University. He also received a JD (1986) from the University of Wisconsin and studied at the London School of Economics and the Hague Academy of International Law. David and his wife, Sue Pleming, live in Washington, DC.