Brenden Kuerbis

IGP Operations Director
Syracuse, NY USA
bnkuerbi[at]syr.edu

Brenden Kuerbis is a doctoral candidate at Syracuse University's School of Information Studies, where he does research on the political economy of communication and information policy (CIP), using the theoretical tools of institutional analysis, standardization, international relations and both historical and quantitative social science methods. As part of a multi-year project funded by the Ford Foundation, he has conducted a historcial evaluation of domestic (U.S.) CIP advocacy and extensive social network analysis of transnational advocacy surounding the recently concluded World Summit on the Information Society. His current research is investigating government interests in the development and adoption of the DNS Security Extensions standard. He has presented work at TPRC, and co-authored papers in Telecommunications Policy and The Information Society. Brenden holds a BA in International Affairs from the University of Colorado and a MBA/MS in Information Technology from the University of Denver. Previously, he held product development positions with a civic communications startup and Level 3 Communications.