
Dr. Rex Hughes is a Senior Resident Member at Wolfson College, Cambridge and Research Associate of The Cambridge-MIT Institute. His current research examines the global governance of cyber security. With Dr. Paul Cornish he established the Cyber Security Project at Chatham House which published in March 2009 its first major report, Cyberspace and the National Security of the United Kingdom. On related subjects he advises senior business and government officials on both sides of the Atlantic. Prior to his Cambridge years Hughes founded and directed the world’s first multidisciplinary Internet Studies program at the University of Washington in Seattle, where in partnership with IBM-Lotus he led the development of iEnvoy, the first secure diplomat-to-diplomat Internet communications platform deployed by the U.S. Department of State.
Abstract of the Presentation:
Towards a Global Regime for Cyber Defense