K. A. Taipale

K. A. Taipale
EducationNew York University
Columbia University
Occupation(s)Investor
Legal scholar
EmployerStilwell Holding (partner)
Websitetaipale.info

K. A. (Kim) Taipale is a Finnish-American investor and legal 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,[1] and previously served on the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age,[2] the advisory council at the World Policy Institute,[3] 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.[4] 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,[5][6] data mining,[7][8] biometrics,[9] and information warfare.[10]

Selected publications

Book chapters

  • Introduction to Civil Liberties and Other Legal Issues, in The McGraw-Hill Homeland Security Handbook 2nd Edition (David Kamien, ed., McGraw-Hill, 2012) (ISBN 0071790845).
  • Cyber-Deterrence, in Law, Policy and Technology: Cyberterorrism, Information Warfare, and Internet Immobilization (IGI Global 2011) (ISBN 1615208313).
  • Power to the Edge: New Threats, New Responses, in America's Security Role in a Changing World: A Global Strategic Assessment 2009 (National Defense University 2009) (ISBN 0160832128).
  • 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, (Jack Balkin, et al., eds., NYU Press, 2007) (ISBN 0814799833).
  • Designing Technical Systems to Support Policy: Enterprise Architecture, Policy Appliances, and Civil Liberties, in Emergent Information Technologies and Enabling Policies for Counter Terrorism (Robert Popp and John Yen, eds., Wiley-IEEE, 2006) (ISBN 0471776157).
  • 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 (INSCT-Bantle 2006).
  • Introduction to Domestic Security and Civil Liberties, in The McGraw-Hill Homeland Security Handbook (David Kamien, ed., McGraw-Hill, 2005) (ISBN 0071446656).

Journal articles and papers

Reports

Opinion

References

  1. ^ "Advisory Board". The Common Good. Retrieved 2024-08-09.
  2. ^ "Markle Task Force on National Security | Markle". www.markle.org. Retrieved 2024-08-09.
  3. ^ "Boards - World Policy". 2018-03-01. Archived from the original on 2018-03-01. Retrieved 2024-08-09.
  4. ^ "New York Law School Magazine, Vol. 28, No. 1 (Winter 2008) p. 55". New York Law School Magazine. 2008. Retrieved 2024-09-05.
  5. ^ Statement on Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Modernization Archived 2007-05-30 at the Wayback Machine, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SCCI) Hearing on The Foreign Intelligence Modernization Act of 2007, U.S. Senate (May 1, 2007).
  6. ^ Testimony on Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Reform, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), U.S. House of Representatives (Jul. 19, 2006).
  7. ^ Testimony of Kim A. Taipale, Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Hearing on Privacy Implications of Government Data Mining Programs, U.S. Senate (Jan. 10, 2007).
  8. ^ "Initiatives|Committee on Technical and Privacy Dimensions of Information for Terrorism Prevention and Other National Goals | The National Academies Press". www.nap.edu. Retrieved 2024-08-09.
  9. ^ Summary of a Workshop on the Technology, Policy, and Cultural Dimensions of Biometric Systems. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press. 2006-02-06. doi:10.17226/11573. ISBN 978-0-309-10125-7.
  10. ^ Committee on the Policy Consequences and Legal/Ethical Implications of Offensive Information Warfare, The National Academies, Washington, DC (Oct. 30, 2006).