Name: Peter Cowhey
Title: Dean, Department of IR/PS; Associate Vice Chancellor for International Affairs

Email:
pcowhey@ucsd.edu
Campus Address: RBC-IRPS/IGCC 4202
Phone: (858) 534-1946


Education:
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1977 (political science)
M.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1971
B.S.F.S., Georgetown University, 1970 (foreign service)

Field of Expertise:
Cowhey is an expert on U.S. foreign policy and technology policy. He has published extensively on comparative foreign policy and international issues involving Asia and the United States. He has also done extensive work on international trade, technology and investment policy. His special expertise is the international communications and information industries. He is a former chief of the International Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and negotiated many of the U.S. international agreements for telecommunications and satellite services. He had responsibility for antitrust decisions involving the communications and satellite industries. He is currently co-leader of the IGCC project on biological threats and public policy, which is funded by the Carnegie Corporation.  And he has served on the boards of leading global non-profits using microfinance and technology innovation programs to alleviate world poverty.

Regions of Interest: Mexico, United States

Media Interview Topics:
Cowhey can provide commentary on U.S. foreign policy, the future of communications and information technology markets and policy, the internet, trade policy, biological threats, international corporate strategy, and the microfinance industry to alleviate poverty. As UC San Diego's Associate Vice Chancellor for International Affairs he has become a leader on the internationalization of the world's research universities. 

Selected Publications:
"The Politics of Technological Transitions in Networked Industries," in John Zysman and AbrahamNewman, eds., How Revolutionary was the Revolution? National Responses, Market Transitions, andGlobal Technology in the Digital Era ( Stanford University Press, 2006).

"Property Rights and the Institutional Foundations of International Services Markets: Comparing Aviationand Telecommunications," in Stephen Vogel (ed.), The State after Statism ( Harvard University Press 2006) (with J. Richards)