Dr. James A. Lewis, Director and Senior Fellow of the Technology and Public Policy Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies
James Andrew Lewis directs the CSIS Technology and Public Policy program and is a senior fellow. Before joining CSIS, he was a career diplomat who worked on a range of national security issues during his federal service. Lewis's extensive diplomatic and regulatory experience includes negotiations on military basing in Southeast Asia, the Cambodia Peace Process, the Five Power Talks on Arms Transfer Restraint, the Wassenaar Arrangement, and several bilateral agreements on security and technology. Lewis was the head of delegation, Wassenaar Experts Group for advanced civil and military technologies, and a political adviser to U.S. Southern Command (for Just Cause), to U.S. Central Command (for Desert Shield), and to the U.S. Central American Task Force. He was responsible for the 1993 redrafting of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, the 1997 regulations implementing the Wassenaar Agreement, numerous regulations on high-performance computing and satellites, and the 1999 and 2000 regulations liberalizing U.S. controls on encryption products.