Frederick S. Tipson

Frederick S. Tipson has been a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow in 2011-2012, writing on international disaster assistance.  Tipson came to USIP after four years as Director of the Washington office of the U.N. Development Programme. Before joining the United Nations in 2007, Tipson was a senior policy counsel at Microsoft, an executive director at the Markle Foundation, and a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.  From 1984 to 2000, he spent 16 years in the telecommunications industry with AT&T and Cable & Wireless/Hong Kong Telecom, including five years in Asia, and work in more than 25 countries.  From 1979 to 1984, he was counsel to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the first two years as minority counsel under ranking member Jacob K. Javits and the last three as chief counsel under the chairmanship of Charles H. Percy. Tipson received his B.A. in history from Stanford with great distinction, his M.A. in International Relations from Yale, and J.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia, where he was editor-in-chief of the Virginia Journal of International Law and a lecturer in law.  He also clerked for Judge Hardy Cross Dillard of the International Court of Justice.

•  “Global Digital Opportunities: National Strategies of ICT for Development,” Report/White Paper with Claudia Frittelli (December  2002).
• “China and the Information Revolution,” in China Joins the World, Michael Oksenberg and Elizabeth Economy (eds.) (Council on Foreign Relations, 1999).
• “Culture Clash-ification: A Verse to Huntington's Curse,” Foreign Affairs, March/April 1997.
• with John Norton Moore and Robert F. Turner (eds.) National Security Law,  (Carolina Academic Press, 1990).