K. A. Taipale


K. A. Taipale is a Finnish-American investor and policy scholar specializing in information, technology, and national security policy. He is a partner in Stilwell Holding, a private investment firm, a director of the Stilwell Charitable Fund, and the former chairman of the executive committee of Kobra International Ltd.

Education

Taipale received a BA and JD from New York University and an MA, EdM, and LLM from Columbia University.

Career

Taipale is the founder and executive director of the Stilwell Center for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology Policy, a private, nonpartisan research organization focused on information and communication technology policy. He was previously an investment banker at Lazard Freres & Co. and a lawyer at Davis Polk & Wardwell.
Taipale serves on the advisory board of The Common Good, and previously served on the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age, the advisory council at the World Policy Institute, 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. He was an adjunct professor of communications at Columbia University and of law at the New York Law School where he was awarded the Otto L. Walter Distinguished Writing Award for legal scholarship. 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 advised senior policy makers in government and the private sector, and testified before Congressional and other national committees, including on issues relating to foreign intelligence surveillance, data mining, biometrics, and information warfare.

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, .
  • , in Emergent Information Technologies and Enabling Policies for Counter Terrorism .
  • 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.
  • , 16 Nat'l Strategy F. Rev. 14.
  • , 9 Yale J. L. & Tech. 128.
  • , World Policy Journal, Vol. XIII.
  • , N.Y.U. Rev. L. & Security, No. VII Supl. Bull. on L. & Sec.: The NSA and the War on Terror.
  • , IEEE Intelligent Systems, Vol. 20 No. 5,.
  • , 7 Yale J. L. & Tech. 123; 9 Intl. J. Comm. L. & Pol'y 8.
  • , 5 Colum. Sci. & Tech. L. Rev. 2.

Reports

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  • , S. E. Spaulding, conv., A. Kochems, rapp..
  • , J. N. Pato and L. I. Millett, eds. .
  • , J.D. Lasica, rapp. .
  • , W. A. Owens, K. W. Dam, and H. S. Lin, eds. .
  • , Committee on Technical and Privacy Dimensions of Information for Terrorism Prevention and Other National Goals .
  • , Clark Kent Ervin and David K. Aylward, .
  • , Third Report of the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age, Zoe Baird & James Barksdale, chmn..
  • , Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age, Zoe Baird & James Barksdale, chmn..

Opinion

  • Commentary,, The Huffington Post.
  • Commentary,, National Review Online.
  • , Program on Law Enforcement and National Security in the Information Age, World Policy Institute.
  • , Program on Law Enforcement and National Security in the Information Age, World Policy Institute.
  • , Program on Telecommunications and Cybersecurity Policy, World Policy Institute.
  • Commentary,, The Washington Times.
  • , Program on Law Enforcement and National Security in the Information Age, World Policy Institute.
  • Global Information Society Project, World Policy Institute.