KimTaipale

From Identity Mashup

Kim Taipale, BA, JD (New York University), MA, EdM, LLM (Columbia University), is the founder and executive director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology Policy, an independent, non-partisan research organization focused on information, technology, and national security issues. He is also a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute and an adjunct professor of law at the New York Law School. Mr. Taipale is associated with the Markle Task Force on National Security in the Information Age, and serves on the Science and Engineering for National Security Advisory Board of The Heritage Foundation and the Information Policy Forum of LexisNexis. He is a partner in Stilwell Holding LLC, a private investment firm, and serves on the advisory board of Parkview Ventures, a technology- focused merchant bank. He is a frequent invited speaker and the author of numerous academic papers, articles, and book chapters on issues relating to information, technology, and national security. Mr. Taipale was previously the director of new media development for Columbia lnnovation Enterprise at Columbia University, where he was earlier a senior fellow at the Institute for Learning Technologies and also taught communications. Prior to that, he was an investment banker at Lazard Freres & Co., an executive at The Pullman Company, and a lawyer at Davis Polk & Wardwell. More at http://taipale.info/