K. A. Taipale is a lawyer, scholar, and social theorist specializing in information, technology, and national security policy. He is a partner in Stilwell Holding, a private investment firm, the founder and executive director of the Stilwell Center for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology Policy, a private, nonpartisan research organization, the chairman of the executive committee of Kobra International Ltd. and a director of the Stilwell Charitable Fund. He was previously an investment banker at Lazard Freres & Co. and a lawyer at Davis Polk & Wardwell. Taipale serves on the advisory council at the World Policy Institute, the advisory board of The Common Good, and on the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age, and previously served on the Science and Engineering for National Security Advisory Board of the Heritage Foundation, the LexisNexis Information Policy Forum; and the Steering Committee of the American Law Institute's digital information privacy project. In addition, he has served on several corporate and non-profit boards. Taipale is a frequent speaker and has written extensively on the intersection of information and technology policy with national and global security interests. He has testified before Congressional and other national committees, including on issues relating to foreign intelligence surveillance, data mining, biometrics, and information warfare. Taipale is a nationally recognized expert on technology and security policy, and related issues, including privacy and civil liberties. He is regularly quoted in the media, and has appeared frequently on PBS and NPR. Taipale received a BA and JD from New York University and an MA, EdM, and LLM from Columbia University.
Selected publications
Book chapters
Introduction to Civil Liberties and Other Legal Issues, in The McGraw-Hill Homeland Security Handbook 2nd Edition .
', in Law, Policy and Technology: Cyberterorrism, Information Warfare, and Internet Immobilization .
', in America's Security Role in a Changing World: A Global Strategic Assessment 2009 .
Why Can't We All Get Along? How Technology, Security and Privacy Can Co-exist in a Digital World, in Cybercrime and Digital Law Enforcement, Ex Machina: Law, Technology & Society Book Series, .
Seeking Symmetry in Fourth Generation Warfare: Information Operations in the War of Ideas, in Proceedings from Challenges in the Struggle Against Violent Extremism: Winning the War of Ideas.
Introduction to Domestic Security and Civil Liberties, in The McGraw-Hill Homeland Security Handbook .
Journal articles and papers
'', Paul Trevithick, William Coleman, John Clippinger, and Kim Taipale.
