The 2018 Summit
Cyber Security and Global Trade
March 2nd - 4th, 2018
The 2018 Inter-Policy School Summit focused on responding to the decline in the legitimacy and momentum of multilateral trade regimes, and the speed with which technological change is outpacing policy-makers and regulators. To sharpen the focus of that enormous question, we considered how the challenges posed by digital trade and cybersecurity should affect the way we think about trade issues. Cybersecurity is likely to be highly affected by the direction of the international trade regime, but to date relatively little policy thinking has been applied to this topic. As such students had an opportunity to make a major substantive impact. We considered:
1. What should the goals of the next decade be? Over the last few decades, the United States and other nations have proposed a wide range of goals for trade and economic policy, including: promoting the health of national businesses, improving the living standards of citizens, cementing alliance relationships, securing access to vital commodities, and promoting a rules-based global order. How should those goals be prioritized now? What steps in domestic economic policy are necessary to pursue them? What steps in international policy? Will the relationship between public and private sectors look like it does now?
2. What kinds of trade system will people accept? The support of multiple stakeholders (national and multinational business, workers, governments, civil society organizations) is required to make trade systems work. Given the expected information environment of the coming decades, the pressures posed by automation, and the rise of nationalism and populism, what sort of trade system should the United States seek?
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Participants
Partners and Sponsors
Speakers & Experts
Joining Minds for Global Impact
Keynote Speaker
Nicholas Percoco
Entrepreneur | Ethical hacker
Cyber and National Security Expert
Chief Security Officer of Uptake
Nick Percoco is Uptake’s Chief Information Security Officer. With more than 20 years of information security expertise, Percoco is adept at developing and leading security programs in this ever-evolving connected threat landscape. He co-founded the “I am The Cavalry” movement, a highly regarded grassroots hacker organization that is focused on issues where computer security intersects public safety and human life, and founded SpiderLabs, the ethical hacking test lab that contributed to Trustwave’s growth. Nick was the creator of THOTCON, a growing annual Chicago hacking conference. Nick has served as a media spokesperson on CNN, Fox News, CNET and Forbes. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Illinois State University.
Experts
Jack Braun
CEO, Cambridge Global Advisors
Jake Braun teaches cybersecurity policy at The University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. He is also Chief Executive Officer of Cambridge Global Advisors. He has over 15 years of experience in the development and implementation of strategic direction for complex, high profile national security initiatives. Prior to joining Cambridge Global, Mr. Braun was the Director of White House and Public Liaison for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Previously, he served as the National Deputy Field Director to the 2008 Obama for America Campaign. In addition to his roles at the Harris School of Public Policy and at Cambridge Global, Mr. Braun currently serves as a fellow at the Council on CyberSecurity and is a strategic advisor to the Department of Homeland Security and the Pentagon on cybersecurity. Mr. Braun holds an MA in International Relations from Troy St. University, an MA in Education from National-Louis University in Chicago, and a BA in Philosophy from Loyola University of Chicago.
Bruce Hirsh
Principal, Tailwind Global Strategies LLC
Former Assistant US Trade Representative for Japan & South Korea
Bruce Hirsh has nearly three decades of experience developing and implementing solutions to complex global problems both in the United States and internationally. Bruce is expert in trade and regulatory issues, as well as U.S. and international policy-making institutions. He worked as Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Japan, Korea, and APEC, where he negotiated Japan-related provisions of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement and represented the United States at Senior Official meetings under APEC and the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement. He holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Brown University and a JD from the Stanford University Law School.
Jonah Force Hill
Cybersecurity expert, National Telecommunications and Information Administration
New America Cybersecurity Policy Fellow
Jonah Force Hill is a fellow in New America's Cybersecurity Initiative and a policy specialist in the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, where he works on a variety of global technology policy issues. Within the Department of Commerce, he serves as the executive secretariat for the Department's "Internet Policy Task Force" and was the principal author of two of the Department's most important technology policy strategies, the "International Cybersecurity Engagement Priorities" report and "Enabling Growth and Innovation in the Digital Economy." He holds an MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School, an MTS from the Harvard Divinity School, and a BA from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Co-Director, Cybersecurity Initiative, New America
Ian Wallace is co-director of New America’s Cybersecurity Initiative, and a senior fellow in the International Security program. His research is mainly focused on the international security and military dimensions of cybersecurity policy. He is also a member of the ‘Future of War’ project. Ian joined New America from the Brookings Institution where he spent two years in the Foreign Policy Program as a Visiting Fellow for Cybersecurity. He was previously a senior official at the British Ministry of Defence (MOD). From 2009-2013 Wallace was as the British Embassy, Washington’s defense policy and nuclear counselor. There he helped develop new UK/US mil/mil cyber link at both the operational and policy levels. Before joining the embassy, he was a fellow at the Weatherhead Center at Harvard University where his research included working on the military implications of cyber capabilities. Wallace has a degree in ancient and modern history from Christ Church, Oxford University.
Will Gossin
Senior Associate Director of Social Entrepreneurship & Social Venture Funding, Rustandy Center for Social Sector Innovation, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Will Gossin leads development and execution of the social venture pipeline at Chicago Booth’s Rustandy Center for Social Sector Innovation. Through the Edwardson Social Entrepreneurship Program, OpenImpact, and the John Edwardson, ’72, Social New Venture Challenge (SNVC), he works with students and faculty from across the university to translate promising insights into viable operating models. He advises and trains teams in foundational entrepreneurship, human-centered design, mixed-method research, and leadership skills to maximize their social impacts. Gossin, who earned master’s degrees in social science and mental health counseling, has also conducted policy analysis and run a corporate innovation team for the American Institutes for Research.