Kenneth Oye Session Overview

KENNETH OYE is a Post-Tenure Professor of Political Science and Data Systems and Society at MIT. His work in international relations includes Cooperation under Anarchy: Economic Discrimination and Political Exchange and four co-edited volumes on US foreign policy. Oye consulted for the Petersen Institute, UNIDO, US Treasury, Commerce, and EXIM. His work in technology policy examines the risks and benefits of synthetic biology, pharmaceuticals, and the internet. It has resulted in papers in Nature, Science, Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Politics and the Life Sciences, and Issues in Science and Technology. Oye is Director of the MIT Program on Emerging Technologies, a faculty affiliate of the Synthetic Biology Center, the Center for Biomedical Innovation, and the Internet Policy Research Initiative; and Chair of the Broad Institute Biosafety Committee.