Peter Cowhey
Peter Cowhey is the UC San Diego Associate Vice Chancellor of International Affairs, and Dean and Qualcomm Professor of Communications and Technology Policy at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. He is currently on leave with the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and will serve as Senior Counselor on strategy and negotiations.
Cowhey is an internationally recognized expert in telecommunications and information policy and markets who also is a leader in building cooperative international arrangements for the management of security and economics issues.
In addition to Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets: The Political Economy of Innovation (MIT, 2009), his other books include When Countries Talk: Global Telecommunication for the 1990s, The Problems of Plenty: Energy Policy and International Politics, and Structure and Policy in Japan and the United States: An Institutionalist Approach.
Cowhey joined University of California, San Diego’s faculty in 1976. He was the director of the UC system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation from 1999-2006. In 1994 Cowhey took leave to join the Federal Communications Commission. As Chief of the International Bureau of the FCC he led the Commission’s work in the WTO negotiations on basic telecommunications services and new competition rules for international telecom services. He currently serves as an adviser to major companies in the telecommunications and information technology industries.
Cowhey is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the International Advisory Board of the Grameen Foundation USA, and a member of the California Council on Science and Technology. He has also served as chairman of the board of Digital Partners, a global non-profit organization.
Cowhey holds a B.A. in foreign services from Georgetown University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.
