James Andrew Lewis is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and directs its Technology Program.  Before joining CSIS, he worked at the Departments of State and Commerce as a Foreign Service Officer and as a member of the career Senior Executive Service.  His government experience includes a range of political-military assignments.  Lewis helped develop the initial U.S. policies on encryption and internet security and led the U.S. delegation to the Wassenaar Arrangement Experts Group on advanced civil and military technologies.  He was the Rapporteur for the UN's Group of Government Experts on Information Security for their successful 2010, 2013 and 2015 sessions. 

Lewis has authored numerous publications at CSIS, including “Reconsidering Deterrence in Cyberspace,” “Why Privacy and Cybersecurity Clash,” “Raising the Bar for Cybersecurity,” “Internet Governance:  Inevitable Transitions,” and “Assessing the Risk of Cyber Terror.”  He was the Director for CSIS’s Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency, the best-selling report whose contributions to U.S. policy were publicly recognized by President Obama.  Lewis is an internationally known expert who has testified numerous times before Congress.  He has a close research partnership with the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations and has led a long running Track 2 dialogue on cybersecurity with them.  His current research examines sovereignty, strategy after deterrence, and internet innovation.  Lewis received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.