Robert Bruce, Senior Research Fellow. Bob has more than 30 years experience in telecommunications law, policy, and regulation. He was a partner of the international law firm Debevoise & Plimpton and head of its international telecommunications practice. In the firm's London office, he was involved as a corporate and securities lawyer in numerous international public offerings by European telecommunications companies. He retired to pursue his interest in the intersection of business, law, and public policy and regulation and consensus building in the telecommunications and information sectors. He is currently Of Counsel to Debevoise & Plimpton and has been a frequent advisor to the World Bank on privatization, sector restructuring, and regulatory reform in the telecom sector.

Bob served as General Counsel to the FCC for three years during the Carter Administration and was appointed as Director of Communications Planning of the Public Broadcasting Service in 1970. He chaired a roundtable of government policy makers and telecom sector executives from around the world organized by the International Institute of Communications. Bob holds degrees from Harvard University (BA and MPA), the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and the Harvard Law School (JD).

Scott Dynes, Senior Research Fellow and Project Manager. Scott's research interests span both the Information Security study and the Collaborative Knowledge Networks project. As a senior research fellow at Dartmouth's Institute for Security Technology Studies, he focused on the adoption of information security within organizations, specifically on market drivers, and what levels of information security are consistent with firm, extended enterprise, and a greater public good. He is currently working on the Center's field study exploring these issues.

Within the Collaborative Knowledge Networks project, his focus is on algorithmic and visualization techniques to identify and track the temporal evolution of small collaborative innovation networks (5-12 individuals) based on email and other logs of the technically-mediated flow of information and knowledge within organizations. He is also interested in the wider aspects of information flow within organizations, both from a social network and a content perspective.

He earned his Ph.D. at MIT for his experimental and modeling work on understanding the response of nerve fibers to electrical stimulation.

Quintus R. Jett, Senior Research Fellow. Quintus studies organization science, management of innovation, and strategy and technology. He is currently researching how digital technologies offer new ways of designing organizations and making decisions. His most recent work appeared in the Academy of Management Review. He was also on faculty at Thayer School of Engineering. Quintus is currently researching how digital technologies offer new ways of designing organizations and making decisions. Using web mapping, he is leading the Gentilly Project, which looks to enhance civic participation in the restoration of flood-damaged New Orleans neighborhoods.

A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, he received an MS and a PhD from Stanford University. You can listen to a recent interview where Quintus discusses open-source organizing.

Laura Rock Kopczak, Senior Research Fellow. Laura is an expert in supply chain management, with extensive teaching and consulting experience. She specializes in supply chain restructuring, the role of non-product companies in the supply chain, and the interplay between e-commerce and supply chain management. Until recently she worked as a professor at Stanford University and was the Director of Research for the Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum. Laura has also taught courses at universities in Switzerland, the Netherlands and Hong Kong. Previous to pursuing her PhD, she worked for ten years at Hewlett-Packard Company.

Laura has published widely in both academic and industry journals and has authored several teaching cases. She holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from SUNY Buffalo, an MBA and an MS in Operations Research from Columbia University and a PhD in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.

Charles H. White Jr. (T'68), Senior Research Fellow. Charlie has over 30 years experience in transportation policy at the national level. Early in his career Charlie served as the Chief of Litigation at the former Interstate Commerce Commission where he was responsible for the court defense of the agency's orders deregulating the nation's trucking industry. In the 80s and 90s, Charlie participated in all the major railroad merger proceedings that collectively transformed and revitalized the freight railroad industry. Under the Clinton administration, he served as the senior railroad industry policy advisor and worked with the President's National Economics Council. He also advised many foreign governments on transportation regulatory, safety, and infrastructure issues. Charlie is currently working on transportation security issues as they impact on supply chain efficiencies, including the policy issues facing the rail industry in the wake of 9/11.

In addition to his Tuck degree, Charlie is a graduate of Boston College and Yale Law School. He also attended the National Security program at the US Army War College. He has been a member of the National Academy of Science's Transportation Research Board, is a member of the board of directors of TRANSLOG International, and is an affiliate of LECG (Law and Economics Consulting Group).

Charlie's recent publications: 2006 South Asia Transport and Trade Facilitation Conference Briefing Book and Transportation Solutions for South Asia Trade.

Xia Zhao, Research Fellow. Xia's research interests span economic and organizational aspects of information systems and electronic commerce. She specializes in information security and risk management within and/or across organizations. Currently she is working on the center's research project entitled "Information Risk in Data-Oriented Enterprises." She acquired her PhD in information systems from the University of Texas at Austin, and her MS in control theory and control engineering and BS in automation from Tsinghua University. Read more about Xia here.