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Director of the Technology, Innovation and Global Security Program

Dr. Kenneth Flamm is Professor and Dean Rusk Chair in International Affairs at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at UT-Austin. He is a 1973 honors graduate of Stanford University and received a Ph.D. in economics from M.I.T. in 1979.

From 1993 to 1995, Dr. Flamm served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Economic Security and Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Defense for Dual Use Technology Policy. He was awarded the Distinguished Public Service Medal by the Secretary of Defense for his work at DoD. Prior to, and after his service at the Defense Department, he spent eleven years as a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at Brookings. Dr. Flamm has been a professor of economics at the Instituto Tecnológico A. de México in Mexico City, the University of Massachusetts, and George Washington University. Flamm was recently named director of the Technology, Innovation, and International Security Program at UT-Austin's Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law.

Dr. Flamm has served as PI for recent research on “Economic Implications of Fair Use,” “Determinants of Internet Use in U.S. Households,” “Internet Use in the Americas,” “Regional Differences in Patterns of Internet Use in the United States,” “Internet Use in Developing and Industrializing Countries,” “Determinants of Broadband Competition,” “Broadband Policy in Comparative International Perspective,” and “Changing Modes of Defense Procurement: Implications for Pricing and Innovation in the US Defense Industry.” He is currently PI for research on “Semiconductor Industry Economics,” and has worked with industry research consortium SEMATECH in building economic models of the semiconductor industry.

Flamm currently is vice-chair of the National Research Council’s Panel on Comparative Innovation Policy, and is a member of its Science, Technology, and Economic Policy Board, its Committee on Assessing the Need for a Defense Stockpile, and its assessment panel on the Small Business Innovation Research Program. He also served recently on the NRC’s Committee on the Future of Supercomputing, and its Steering Group on Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy. He has served as member and Chair of the NATO Science Committee’s Panel for Science and Technology Policy and Organization, and as a member of the Federal Networking Council Advisory Committee, the OECD’s Expert Working Party on High Performance Computers and Communications, various advisory committees and study groups of the National Science Foundation, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Defense Science Board, and the U.S. Congress’ Office of Technology Assessment, and as a consultant to government agencies, international organizations, andd private corporations.

Dr. Flamm is the author of numerous articles and books on the dynamics of international competition in high technology industries, and studies of the computer, semiconductor, and telecommunications industries. Among the latter are Mismanaged Trade? Strategic Policy and the Semiconductor Industry (1996), Changing the Rules: Technological Change, International Competition, and Regulation in Communications (ed., with Robert Crandell, 1989), Creating the Computer (1988), and Targeting the Computer (1987).